An auditory based modulation spectral feature for reverberant speech recognition

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 570-573

  Maganti, HariKrishna ^a   Matassoni, Marco ^a  

^a ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

Auditory processing; Gammatone filtering; Modulation spectrum; Reverberation; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING; INFORMATION FILTERING; MODULATION; REVERBERATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUDITORY PROCESSING; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; EXTRACTING FEATURES; FEATURE COMPENSATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES; MODULATION SPECTRUM; ROOM REVERBERATIONS; GAMMATONE FILTERING; SPECTRAL FEATURE; SPEECH RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; SPEECH SIGNALS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION; REVERBERATION;

EID: 79959857490     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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