Amplitude modulation filters as feature sets for robust ASR: Constant absolute or relative bandwidth?

13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1230-1233

  Moritz, Niko ^a   Anemüller, Jörn ^a,b   Kollmeier, Birger ^a,b  

^a FRAUNHOFER IDMT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amplitude modulation; Feature extraction; Speech recognition; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE FLUCTUATIONS; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; DIFFERENT WAVELETS; MODULATION FREQUENCIES; PROVIDE GUIDANCES; RELATIVE BANDWIDTH; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TIME AND FREQUENCIES;

BANDWIDTH; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FREQUENCY BANDS; SEPARATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

EID: 84878415009     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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