Temporal envelope compensation for robust phoneme recognition using modulation spectrum

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3769-3780

  Ganapathy, Sriram ^a   Thomas, Samuel ^a   Hermansky, Hynek ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE LOOPS; ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; CHANNEL NOISE; CONVERSATIONAL TELEPHONE SPEECH; FEATURE EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; LINEAR PREDICTION; MODULATION FREQUENCIES; MODULATION SPECTRUM; NOISE COMPENSATION; NOISY SPEECH; PHONEME RECOGNITION; PROCESSING STAGE; ROBUST SPEECH; SPEECH SIGNALS; SUB-BANDS; TEMPORAL ENVELOPES; TEST DATA;

ADDITIVE NOISE; EXPERIMENTS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MODULATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; HUMAN; NOISE; PHONETICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; NOISE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHONETICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79952171347     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3504658     Document Type: Article

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