Robust features for speaker-independent speech recognition based on a certain class of translation-invariant transformations

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5933 LNAI, Issue , 2010, Pages 111-119

  Müller, Florian ^a   Mertins, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Speaker independency; Speech recognition; Translation invariance

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; INDEX SPACE; MEL-FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; RECOGNITION RATES; SPEAKER-INDEPENDENT SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPECTRAL EFFECTS; SUB-BANDS; TRANSLATION INVARIANCE; TRANSLATION INVARIANTS; VOCAL TRACT LENGTH NORMALIZATION; VOCAL TRACT LENGTHS;

FILTER BANKS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; REMELTING; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 77951480608     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11509-7_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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