Front-end for far-field speech recognition based on frequency domain linear prediction

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 984-987

  Ganapathy, Sriram ^a,b   Thomas, Samuel ^a,b   Hermansky, Hynek ^a,b  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Frequency domain linear prediction; Front end for far field speech; Reverberant speech; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; FAR-FIELD; FEATURE EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; LINEAR PREDICTION; RELATIVE REDUCTION; RESIDUAL SIGNALS; REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENT; REVERBERANT SPEECH; ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE; SPEECH DATA; SUB-BANDS; TEMPORAL SEGMENTS; WORD ERROR RATE;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; FORECASTING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; REVERBERATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867195580     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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