A comparative study of noise estimation algorithms for VTS-based robust speech recognition

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2090-2093

  Zhao, Yong ^a   Juang, Biing Hwang ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Noise estimation; Robust speech recognition; Vector Taylor series

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; TAYLOR SERIES;

AUXILIARY FUNCTIONS; COMPARATIVES STUDIES; DERIVATIVE FUNCTIONS; ESTIMATION APPROACHES; ITERATIVE ROOTS; NOISE ESTIMATION; NOISE ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; ROOTFINDING; VECTOR TAYLOR SERIES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79959825393     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.21437/interspeech.2010-589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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