A MMSE estimator in mel-cepstral domain for robust large vocabulary automatic speech recognition using uncertainty propagation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 713-716

  Astudillo, Ramón Fernandez ^a   Orglmeister, Reinhold ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ephraim malah filters; Large vocabulary ASR; MMSE; Modified imputation; Uncertainty propagation; Wiener filter

Indexed keywords

MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VOCABULARY CONTROL; BANDPASS FILTERS; CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

LARGE VOCABULARY; MMSE; MODIFIED IMPUTATIONS; UNCERTAINTY PROPAGATION; WIENER FILTERS; EPHRAIM-MALAH FILTER; LARGE VOCABULARY ASR; MEANS SQUARE ERRORS; MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MINIMUM MEAN SQUARES; MINIMUM MEAN-SQUARE ERROR ESTIMATORS; WIENER FILTER;

SPEECH RECOGNITION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

EID: 79959836811     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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