Invariant-integration method for robust feature extraction in speaker-independent speech recognition

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2975-2978

  Müller, Florian ^a   Mertins, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Invariant integration; Monomials; Speaker independency; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; FEATURE SELECTION METHODS; INDEX SPACE; INTEGRATION METHOD; INVARIANT INTEGRATION; MONOMIALS; PROCESSING STAGE; SPEAKER-INDEPENDENT SPEECH RECOGNITION; STANDARD METHOD; SUB-BANDS; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; VOCAL TRACT LENGTHS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; REMELTING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70450220336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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