Spectro-temporal modulation subspace-spanning filter bank features for robust automatic speech recognition

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 4134-4151

  Schädler, Marc René ^a   Meyer, Bernd T ^a   Kollmeier, Birger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE NOISE; BANDPASS FILTERS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FILTER BANKS; GABOR FILTERS; MODULATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; CEPSTRAL MEAN SUBTRACTION; INTRINSIC VARIABILITIES; MEL-FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; ROBUST AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPECTRO-TEMPORAL MODULATIONS; STATE-OF-THE-ART SYSTEM; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FILTERS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; NOISE; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; STANDARD;

ALGORITHMS; NOISE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE;

EID: 84863799482     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3699200     Document Type: Article

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