The representation of speech in a nonlinear auditory model: Time-domain analysis of simulated auditory-nerve firing patterns

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2453-2456

  Brown, Guy J ^a   Jürgens, Tim ^b   Meddis, Ray ^c   Robertson, Matthew ^a   Clark, Nicholas R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory model; Automatic speech recognition; Time interval

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; AUDITORY MODELS; AUDITORY NERVES; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; FIRING PATTERNS; FIRING RATES; FORMANT FREQUENCY; PHYSIOLOGICAL DATA; TIME INTERVAL;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS);

EID: 84865742017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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