Model-based dereverberation in the logmelspec domain for robust distant-talking speech recognition

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4298-4301

  Sehr, Armin ^a   Maas, Roland ^a   Kellermann, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic modeling; Distant talking ASR; Model based dereverberation; Reverberation; Robust ASR

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODELING; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTICS MODEL; CLEAN SPEECH; DEREVERBERATION; DISTANT-TALKING ASR; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; MODEL NETWORKS; MODEL-BASED DEREVERBERATION; MODEL-BASED OPC; REVERBERATION MODELING; ROBUST ASR;

REVERBERATION;

EID: 77955671150     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495671     Document Type: Conference Paper

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