Bayesian feature enhancement using a mixture of unscented transformations for uncertainty decoding of noisy speech

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4569-4572

  Shinohara, Yusuke ^a   Akamine, Masami ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Feature enhancement; Noisy speech recognition; Uncertainty decoding; Unscented transformation; Vector Taylor series

Indexed keywords

FEATURE ENHANCEMENT; NOISY SPEECH RECOGNITION; UNCERTAINTY DECODING; UNSCENTED TRANSFORMATION; VECTOR TAYLOR SERIES;

ACOUSTICS; DECODING; LINEARIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TARGET TRACKING; TAYLOR SERIES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70349206345     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960647     Document Type: Conference Paper

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