Multistream bandpass modulation features for robust speech recognition

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1277-1280

  Nemala, Sridhar Krishna ^a   Patil, Kailash ^a   Elhilali, Mounya ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Multistream; Noise robustness; Specto temporal modulations; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; BAND PASS; BANDPASS OPERATION; FEATURE ANALYSIS; LOCALIZED FEATURES; MULTI-STREAM; NOISE DISTORTIONS; NOISE ROBUSTNESS; NONSTATIONARY; PARALLEL PATH; PHONEME RECOGNITION; PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPECTRAL INFORMATION; SPECTRAL MODULATION; SPEECH SIGNALS; SPEECH SOUNDS; TEMPORAL DIMENSIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

MODULATION;

EID: 84865738978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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