Discriminative classifiers with adaptive kernels for noise robust speech recognition

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 648-662

  Gales, M J F ^a   Flego, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Generative kernels; Noise robustness; Speech recognition; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE KERNELS; BACKGROUND NOISE; CLEAN SPEECH; DECISION BOUNDARY; DISCRIMINATIVE CLASSIFIERS; GENERATIVE KERNELS; GENERATIVE MODEL; IMPACT OF NOISE; KERNEL BASED CLASSIFIERS; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODEL-BASED COMPENSATION; NOISE CONDITIONS; NOISE ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; NOISE ROBUSTNESS; OPTIMISATIONS; SEQUENCE DATA; TEST DATA; TEST SETS; VECTOR TAYLOR SERIES;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; CLASSIFIERS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; VECTORS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 77950857527     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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