Speaker and noise factorization for robust speech recognition

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2149-2158

  Wang, Yongqiang ^a   Gales, Mark J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic factorization; noise robustness; speaker adaptation; vector Taylor series (VTS)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FACTORS; BACKGROUND NOISE; CLEAN SPEECH; FACTORIZATION APPROACH; FLEXIBLE FRAMEWORK; MULTIPLE FACTORS; NOISE CONDITIONS; NOISE FACTOR; NOISE ROBUSTNESS; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPEAKER CHARACTERISTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; TRANSMISSION CHANNELS; VECTOR TAYLOR SERIES;

FACTORIZATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84862293102     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2012.2198059     Document Type: Article

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