Robust speech recognition by integrating speech separation and hypothesis testing

Speech Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 72-81

  Srinivasan, Soundararajan ^a   Wang, DeLiang ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ideal binary mask; Missing data recognizer; Robust speech recognition; Speech segregation; Top down processing

Indexed keywords

IDEAL BINARY MASK; MISSING-DATA RECOGNIZER; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SEGREGATION; TOP-DOWN PROCESSING;

F REGION; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SEPARATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70350038037     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2009.08.008     Document Type: Article

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