Improved acoustic feature combination for LVCSR by neural networks

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1237-1240

  Plahl, Christian ^a   Schlüter, Ralf ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Multi layer neural network; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; ACOUSTIC MODEL; BASELINE SYSTEMS; FEATURE COMBINATION; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; SYSTEM COMBINATION; TRAINING AND TESTING; WORD ERROR RATE;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84858985237     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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