A robust frontend for ASR: Combining denoising, noise masking and feature normalization

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 7097-7101

  Van Segbroeck, Maarten ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

noise robust feature extraction; speech enhancement; speech recognition

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; BACKGROUND NOISE; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; DENOISING METHODS; FEATURE NORMALIZATION; NOISE COMPENSATION; NOISE ROBUST; STATE OF THE ART;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84890541926     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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