Coupling binary masking and robust ASR

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 6817-6821

  Narayanan, Arun ^a   Wang, Deliang ^a,b  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aurora 4; bidirectional speech decoder; Computational Auditory Scene Analysis; noise robust ASR

Indexed keywords

AURORA-4; BIDIRECTIONAL SPEECH DECODER; CEPSTRAL FEATURES; COMPUTATIONAL AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS; IDEAL BINARY MASK (IBM); NOISE ROBUST ASR; ROBUST AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITIONS (ASR); SPEECH SEPARATION;

ESTIMATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84890475416     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6638982     Document Type: Conference Paper

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