Unsupervised equalization of lombard effect for speech recognition in noisy adverse environment

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3937-3940

  Bořil, Hynek ^a   Hansen, John H L ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Cepstral compensation; Codebook of noisy models; Frequency warping; Lombard effect; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE REDUCTION; ACOUSTIC MODEL; ADVERSE ENVIRONMENT; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; BASELINE SYSTEMS; CEPSTRAL; CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; CEPSTRAL COMPENSATION; CEPSTRAL DOMAIN; CODEBOOK OF NOISY MODELS; CODEBOOKS; ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; FREQUENCY WARPING; LOMBARD EFFECT; MEAN AND VARIANCE NORMALIZATIONS; PERCEPTUAL LINEAR PREDICTIONS; QUANTILE ESTIMATION; SPEECH PRODUCTION; UNSUPERVISED EQUALIZATION; WORD ERROR RATE;

ACOUSTICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; REMELTING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; WEAVING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70349510745     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960489     Document Type: Conference Paper

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