On the application of reverberation suppression to robust speech recognition

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 297-300

  Maas, Roland ^a   Habets, Emanuel A P ^a   Sehr, Armin ^a   Kellermann, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

automatic speech recognition; reverberation robustness; reverberation suppression; Signal enhancement

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; DESIGN PARAMETERS; OPTIMUM CONFIGURATIONS; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENT; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT; SINGLE-CHANNEL; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; SUPPRESSION ALGORITHM; TRAINING DATA;

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

REVERBERATION;

EID: 84867584057     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6287875     Document Type: Conference Paper

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