The reverb challenge: Acommon evaluation framework for dereverberation and recognition of reverberant speech

IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kinoshita, Keisuke ^a   Delcroix, Marc ^a   Yoshioka, Takuya ^a   Nakatani, Tomohiro ^a   Sehr, Armin ^b   Kellermann, Walter ^c   Maas, Roland ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL AUDIO LABORATORIES ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b BEUTH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ASR; challenge; dereverberation; evaluation; Reverberant speech

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ASR; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CHALLENGE; DEREVERBERATION; EVALUATION; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; MULTICHANNEL DEREVERBERATION; STATE-OF-THE-ART ALGORITHMS;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

EID: 84893622444     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WASPAA.2013.6701894     Document Type: Conference Paper

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