Channel selection based on multichannel cross-correlation coefficients for distant speech recognition

2011 Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, HSCMA'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-6

  Kumatani, Kenichi ^a   McDonough, John ^b   Lehman, Jill Fain ^a,b   Raj, Bhiksha ^b  

^a DISNEY RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

beamforming; channel selection; microphone arrays; speech recognition

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL SELECTION; CROSS-CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; MULTI-CHANNEL; SPEECH RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE;

BEAMFORMING; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; MICROPHONES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79961162572     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HSCMA.2011.5942398     Document Type: Conference Paper

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