Using spectro-temporal features to improve AFE feature extraction for ASR

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1181-1184

  Ravuri, Suman V ^a,b   Morgan, Nelson ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Spectro temporal features

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; FRONT END; NOISY CONDITIONS; ROBUST RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL APPROACH; TEMPORAL FEATURES; WIENER FILTERING; FEATURES EXTRACTION; FILTERING METHOD; SPECTRO-TEMPORAL FEATURE; WIENER-FILTERING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79959814963     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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