Robust speech interaction in motorcycle environment

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1827-1835

  Mporas, Iosif ^a   Kocsis, Otilia ^a   Ganchev, Todor ^a   Fakotakis, Nikos ^a  

^a Wire Communications Laboratory   (Greece)

Author keywords

Agent based system; Data fusion; Motorcycle environment; Speech enhancement; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED SYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FUSION ALGORITHMS; FUSION TECHNIQUES; INDEPENDENT SPEECH; INFORMATION SUPPORT; INTERACTION INTERFACE; MULTI-THREAD; MULTIMODAL DIALOGUE; NONSTATIONARY NOISE; POLICE FORCES; PRE-PROCESSING; ROBUST SPEECH; SPEECH RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; SPOKEN DIALOGUE; VARIOUS CONFIGURATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

DATA FUSION; INFORMATION FUSION; MOTORCYCLES; MULTITASKING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70449525310     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.07.011     Document Type: Article

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