On the mask modeling and feature representation in the missing-feature ASR: Evaluation on the consonant challenge

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1777-1780

  Jančovič, Peter ^a   Köküer, Münevver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Consonant identification; Frequency filtering; Mask modeling; Mask probability; Missing feature theory; Noise robustness; VCV

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CONSONANT IDENTIFICATION; FREQUENCY-FILTERING; MASK MODELING; MISSING-FEATURE THEORY; NOISE-ROBUSTNESS; VCV;

ALGEBRA; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79958841880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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