Static and dynamic variance compensation for recognition of reverberant speech with dereverberation preprocessing

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 324-334

  Delcroix, Marc ^a   Nakatani, Tomohiro ^a   Watanabe, Shinji ^a  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dereverberation; Model adaptation; Robust automatic speech recognition (ASR); Variance compensation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; ADAPTATION SCHEME; ADAPTIVE TRAINING; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CONVENTIONAL MODELS; DEREVERBERATION; ERROR RATE; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; MODEL ADAPTATION; MODEL PARAMETERS; NOISE ROBUSTNESS; PARAMETRIC MODELS; PREPROCESSORS; RELATIVE ERROR RATES; REVERBERATION EFFECTS; REVERBERATION TIME; ROBUST AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR); SPEECH FEATURES; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; VARIANCE COMPENSATION; WORD ERROR RATE;

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; DYNAMIC MODELS; ELECTRIC LOAD SHEDDING; ERROR COMPENSATION; REMELTING; REVERBERATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70350450398     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.2010214     Document Type: Article

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