UT-Scope: Towards LVCSR under Lombard effect induced by varying types and levels of noisy background

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4472-4475

  Boril, Hynek ^a   Hansen, John H L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

cepstral compensations; Lombard effect; RASTA; speech recognition; UT Scope database

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; ADVERSE ENVIRONMENT; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; BACKGROUND NOISE; BACKGROUND VARIATION; CEPSTRAL COMPENSATIONS; CEPSTRAL NORMALIZATIONS; LARGE VOCABULARY; LOMBARD EFFECT; NORMALIZATION ALGORITHMS; RASTA; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; SPEECH MATERIALS; SPEECH PRODUCTION; SPEECH SIGNALS; SPEECH SYSTEMS; UT-SCOPE DATABASE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 80051656187     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5947347     Document Type: Conference Paper

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