Automatic Speech Recognition in Adverse Acoustic Conditions

Advances in Digital Speech Transmission

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 461-496

  Hirsch, Hans Günter ^a  

^a NIEDERRHEIN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Background noise and reverberation; Feature extraction or front end processing; Frequency weighting function; Hands free speech input and reverberant room environment; Hands free speech input influence; Room impulse response (RIR); Speech encoding and decoding; Statistically independent acoustic features; Zeroth cepstral coefficient

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EID: 77955688063     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470727188.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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