Monaural speech separation and recognition challenge

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-15

  Cooke, Martin ^a,b   Hershey, John R ^c   Rennie, Steven J ^c  

^a BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory scene analysis; Noise robustness; Simultaneous speech; Speaker identification; Speech recognition; Speech separation

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS; NOISE ROBUSTNESS; SIMULTANEOUS SPEECH; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION; SPEECH SEPARATION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; LOUDSPEAKERS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; SEPARATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 69249202377     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2009.02.006     Document Type: Article

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