Noise robustness of tract variables and their application to speech recognition

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2759-2762

  Mitra, Vikramjit ^a   Nam, Hosung ^b   Espy Wilson, Carol ^a   Saltzman, Elliot ^b,c   Goldstein, Louis ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gestural phonology; Kalman smoothing; Neural networks; Noise robust speech recognition; Speech inversion

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION MODELS; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; DATA SETS; ESTIMATION MODULE; FEED-FORWARD ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS; GESTURAL PHONOLOGY; INVERSE MODELS; KALMAN SMOOTHING; NATURAL SPEECH; NOISE ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; NOISE ROBUSTNESS; PREPROCESSORS; SPEECH INVERSION; SPEECH SIGNALS; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TRAINING CORPUS; VOCAL-TRACTS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NOISE POLLUTION; REMELTING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70450200298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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