Histogram-based quantization for robust and/or distributed speech recognition

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 859-873

  Wan, Chia Yu ^a   Lee, Lin Shan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Error compensation; Robustness; Speech recognition; Vector quantization (VQ)

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL APPROACHES; DISTRIBUTED SPEECH RECOGNITION; ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; ERROR CONCEALMENTS; FEATURE TRANSFORMATIONS; JOINT UNCERTAINTIES; ORDER STATISTICS; PARTITION CELLS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; QUANTIZATION DISTORTIONS; QUANTIZATION ERRORS; RECOGNITION ACCURACIES; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; ROBUSTNESS; SPEECH FEATURES; TESTING ENVIRONMENTS; TRANSMISSION ERRORS;

DECODING; ERROR COMPENSATION; ERROR DETECTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 64849105676     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.920891     Document Type: Article

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