Sparse imputation for large vocabulary noise robust ASR

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 462-479

  Gemmeke, Jort Florent ^a   Cranen, Bert ^a   Remes, Ulpu ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Missing data techniques; Noise robustness; Sparse imputation

Indexed keywords

A-FRAMES; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CLEAN SPEECH; CONNECTED DIGITS; ERROR PRONES; FEATURE RELIABILITY; IMPUTATION TECHNIQUES; LARGE VOCABULARY; MISSING DATA TECHNIQUES; NOISE CONDITIONS; NOISE ROBUSTNESS; NOISY SPEECH; PARAMETRIC MODELS; ROBUST ASR; SPARSE IMPUTATION; TIME FRAME;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 78049527664     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2010.06.004     Document Type: Article

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