Contextual invariant-integration features for improved speaker-independent speech recognition

Speech Communication

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 830-841

  Müller, Florian ^a   Mertins, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Invariant integration; Speaker independency; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION METHODS; CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; EXTRACTION METHOD; FEATURE TYPES; INVARIANT-INTEGRATION; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPEAKER-INDEPENDENCY; SPEAKER-INDEPENDENT SPEECH RECOGNITION; TEST CONDITION; TESTING CONDITIONS; THEORY OF INVARIANTS; TIME-PERIODS; VERY LOW COMPLEXITY; VOCAL TRACT LENGTH NORMALIZATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; FILTER BANKS; INTEGRATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79955539267     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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