Normalized amplitude modulation features for large vocabulary noise-robust speech recognition

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4117-4120

  Mitra, Vikramjit ^a   Franco, Horacio ^a   Graciarena, Martin ^a   Mandal, Arindam ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition; Modulation Features; Noise Robust Speech Recognition

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED SYSTEMS; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; BACKGROUND NOISE; CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; CHANNEL DEGRADATIONS; DIGIT RECOGNITION; ENERGY OPERATORS; FEATURE SETS; HUMAN AUDITORY SYSTEM; HUMAN SPEECH; LARGE VOCABULARY; LARGE VOCABULARY SPEECH RECOGNITION; NOISE ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; NOISE ROBUSTNESS; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; WALL STREET JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; AUDITION; AUTOMATION; COSINE TRANSFORMS; EXPERIMENTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867589420     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6288824     Document Type: Conference Paper

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