Monaural speech separation based on MAXVQ and CASA for robust speech recognition

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 30-44

  Li, Peng ^a   Guan, Yong ^a   Wang, Shijin ^a   Xu, Bo ^a   Liu, Wenju ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition (ASR); Computational auditory scene analysis (CASA); Factorial max vector quantization (MAXVQ); Monaural speech separation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR); COMPUTATIONAL AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS (CASA); FACTORIAL-MAX VECTOR QUANTIZATION (MAXVQ); GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS; MONAURAL SPEECH SEPARATION; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION; SPEECH SEPARATION; TARGET SPEAKER; VECTOR QUANTIZERS;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; PATIENT REHABILITATION; REMELTING; SEPARATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; VECTOR QUANTIZATION; VECTORS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 69249203845     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2008.05.005     Document Type: Article

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