Mask classification for missing-feature reconstruction for robust speech recognition in unknown background noise

Speech Communication

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-11

  Kim, Wooil ^a   Stern, Richard M ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colored noise masker generation; Frequency dependent mask classification; Missing feature reconstruction; Multi band partition method; Robust speech recognition

Indexed keywords

COLORED-NOISE MASKER GENERATION; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; MISSING-FEATURE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTIBAND; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADDITIVE NOISE; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLASSIFIERS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FREQUENCY BANDS; INNOVATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL TESTS; WHITE NOISE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 78649325568     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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