Recognition of overlapping speech using digital MEMS microphone arrays

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 7068-7072

  Zwyssig, Erich ^a,b   Faubel, Friedrich ^c   Renals, Steve ^a   Lincoln, Mike ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Quorate Technology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ASR; MEMS microphones; microphone array; speech separation; WSJ

Indexed keywords

ASR; MEMS MICROPHONE; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; SPEECH SEPARATION; WSJ;

AUDIO RECORDINGS; ECHO SUPPRESSION; EXPERIMENTS; MICROPHONES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84890443591     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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