Robust speech recognition using a cepstral minimum-mean-square-error- motivated noise suppressor

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1061-1070

  Yu, Dong ^a   Deng, Li ^a   Droppo, Jasha ^a   Wu, Jian ^a   Gong, Yifan ^a   Acero, Alex ^a  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Mel frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC); Minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimate; Noise reduction; Phase asynchrony; Robust automatic speech recognition (ASR)

Indexed keywords

MEL-FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENT (MFCC); MINIMUM-MEAN-SQUARE-ERROR (MMSE) ESTIMATE; NOISE REDUCTION; PHASE ASYNCHRONY; ROBUST AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR);

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ALGORITHMS; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FILTER BANKS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REMELTING; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 66149101303     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.921761     Document Type: Article

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