A computational auditory scene analysis system for speech segregation and robust speech recognition

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 77-93

  Shao, Yang ^a   Srinivasan, Soundararajan ^b   Jin, Zhaozhang ^a   Wang, DeLiang ^a,b  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary time frequency mask; Computational Auditory Scene Analysis; Robust speech recognition; Speech segregation; Uncertainty decoding

Indexed keywords

BINARY TIME-FREQUENCY MASK; COMPUTATIONAL AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SEGREGATION; UNCERTAINTY DECODING;

DECODING; PATIENT REHABILITATION; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 69249159165     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2008.03.004     Document Type: Article

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