Soft missing-feature mask generation for simultaneous speech recognition system in robots

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 992-995

  Takahashi, Toru ^a   Yamamoto, Shun'ichi ^a   Nakadai, Kazuhiro ^b   Komatani, Kazunori ^a   Ogata, Tetsuya ^a   Okuno, Hiroshi G ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE JAPAN CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Missing feature theory; Robot audition; Simultaneous speech recognition; Soft mask; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL SYSTEMS; ENERGY ESTIMATION; FREE PARAMETERS; MISSING FEATURE THEORIES; PROBABILITY CALCULATIONS; RECOGNITION PROCESS; RECOGNITION RATES; ROBOT AUDITION; SIGMOID FUNCTION; SIMULTANEOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; SOFT MASK; SPECTRAL PARAMETERS; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; STATIC FEATURES; WORD RECOGNITION;

AUDITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; ROBOTS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867201614     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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