An uncertainty propagation approach to robust ASR using the ETSI advanced front-end

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 824-833

  Astudillo, Ramón Fernández ^a   Kolossa, Dorothea ^a   Mandelartz, Philipp ^a   Orglmeister, Reinhold ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Advanced front end (AFE); AURORA5; European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) distributed recognition (DSR); uncertainty decoding; uncertainty propagation

Indexed keywords

AURORA5; EUROPEAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS STANDARDS INSTITUTES; FRONT END; UNCERTAINTY DECODING; UNCERTAINTY PROPAGATION;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DECODING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 77956717352     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2010.2057194     Document Type: Article

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