Robust front end processing for speech recognition in reverberant environments: Utilization of speech characteristics

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 658-661

  Petrick, Rico ^a   Lu, Xugang ^b   Unoki, Masashi ^b   Akagi, Masato ^b   Hoffmann, Ruediger ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Harmonicity based feature analysis; Reverberation; Robust ASR; Temporal power envelope feature analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; DEREVERBERATION; ENVELOPE FEATURE; FEATURE ANALYSIS; FRONT-END PROCESSING; HARMONIC COMPONENTS; HARMONICITY; INVERSE FILTERING; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; REVERBERANT CONDITION; REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENT; REVERBERATION TIME; ROBUST ASR; ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE; TEMPORAL MODULATIONS; TEMPORAL STRUCTURES;

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; REVERBERATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867220524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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