Acoustic feature optimization based on F-Ratio for robust speech recognition

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E93-D, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2417-2430

  Sun, Yanqing ^a   Zhou, Yu ^a   Zhao, Qingwei ^a   Yan, Yonghong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

F Ratio; Feature optimization; Mismatched speech; Robust speech recognition; Sub band design

Indexed keywords

DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; FREQUENCY BANDS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH;

DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; F RATIO; FEATURE OPTIMIZATIONS; MEL-FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; NOISY SPEECH RECOGNITION; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; SUBBANDS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 77956859456     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E93.D.2417     Document Type: Article

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