Noise model transfer: Novel approach to robustness against nonstationary noise

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2182-2192

  Yoshioka, Takuya ^a   Nakatani, Tomohiro ^a  

^a Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Meeting speech recognition; nonstationary noise; reverberation; robust speech recognition

Indexed keywords

CHANGING PARAMETER; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; NOISE CHARACTERISTIC; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; NOISE-POWER SPECTRA; NONSTATIONARY NOISE; OPTIMAL TRANSFORMATION; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ESTIMATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POWER SPECTRUM; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

REVERBERATION;

EID: 84881043147     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2013.2272513     Document Type: Article

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