Robust speech recognition based on dereverberation parameter optimization using acoustic model likelihood

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1708-1716

  Gomez, Randy ^a   Kawahara, Tatsuya ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition (ASR); dereverberation; robustness

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; DEREVERBERATION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; MULTIBAND; OPTIMAL PARAMETER; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENT; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; ROBUSTNESS; ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE; SCALE FACTOR; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; WAVE FORMS;

IMPULSE RESPONSE; OPTIMIZATION; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 77955686025     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2052610     Document Type: Article

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