Ensemble speaker and speaking environment modeling approach with advanced online estimation process

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3833-3836

  Tsao, Yu ^a   Li, Jinyu ^a   Lee, Chin Hui ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensemble speaker and speaking environment modeling; N best transcription; Noise robustness

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; ADAPTATION TECHNIQUES; ENSEMBLE SPEAKER AND SPEAKING ENVIRONMENT MODELING; ENVIRONMENT MODELING; INFORMATION TECHNIQUES; MULTIPLE SET; N-BEST TRANSCRIPTION; NOISE ROBUSTNESS; ON-LINE ESTIMATION; SPEAKER VARIABILITY; UNKNOWN ENVIRONMENTS; UNSUPERVISED ADAPTATION; WORD ERROR RATE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSCRIPTION;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 70349194598     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960463     Document Type: Conference Paper

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