Improving the ensemble speaker and speaking environment modeling approach by enhancing the precision of the online estimation process

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1265-1268

  Tsao, Yu ^a   Lee, Chin Hui ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic modeling; Robust speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; ACOUSTIC MODELING; CONNECTED DIGITS; ENVIRONMENT MODELING; MAPPING FUNCTIONS; MATCHING ALGORITHM; MULTIPLE CLUSTERINGS; OFF-LINE PROCESS; OFFLINE; ON-LINE ESTIMATION; ONLINE MAPPING; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH DATA; STUDY METHODS; TESTING CONDITIONS; WORD ERROR RATE;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867201606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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