Auditory model based optimization of MFCCs improves automatic speech recognition performance

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2987-2990

  Chatterjee, Saikat ^a   Koniaris, Christos ^a   Kleijn, W Bastiaan ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

ASR; Auditory model; MFCC

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY MODELS; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FEATURE DOMAIN; HUMAN AUDITORY SYSTEM; LOCAL GEOMETRY; MEL-FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; REMELTING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70450221097     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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