Feature space variational Bayesian linear regression and its combination with model space VBLR

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 7898-7902

  Hahm, Seong Jun ^a,b   Ogawa, Atsunori ^a   Delcroix, Marc ^a   Fujimoto, Masakiyo ^a   Hori, Takaaki ^a   Nakamura, Atsushi ^a  

^a Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation   (Japan)

^b The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

fSMAPLR; fVBLR; SMAPLR; speaker adaptation; VBLR

Indexed keywords

FSMAPLR; FVBLR; SMAPLR; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; VBLR;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

LINEAR REGRESSION;

EID: 84890534474     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639202     Document Type: Conference Paper

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