An efferent-inspired auditory model front-end for speech recognition

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 49-52

  Lee, Chia Ying ^a   Glass, James ^a   Ghitza, Oded ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory model; Efferent; Feature extraction

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY MODELS; BACKGROUND NOISE; CLOSED-LOOP; CONNECTED DIGITS; DYNAMIC ADAPTATIONS; EFFERENT; FEATURE REPRESENTATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; OPEN LOOPS; OPERATING POINTS; TEST NOISE; WORD RECOGNITION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; FILTER BANKS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84865704695     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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