Speech fragment decoding techniques for simultaneous speaker identification and speech recognition

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 94-111

  Barker, Jon ^a   Ma, Ning ^a   Coy, André ^a   Cooke, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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

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; DECODING; ERROR CORRECTION; LOUDSPEAKERS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; TARGETS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 69249231059     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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