The second 'CHiME' speech separation and recognition challenge: An overview of challenge systems and outcomes

2013 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2013 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 162-167

  Vincent, Emmanuel ^a   Barker, Jon ^b   Watanabe, Shinji ^c   Le Roux, Jonathan ^c   Nesta, Francesco ^d   Matassoni, Marco ^e  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d Rockwell Semiconductor Systems   (United States)

^e ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

'CHiME' Challenge; Noise robust ASR

Indexed keywords

'CHIME' CHALLENGE; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; BASELINE SYSTEMS; DOMESTIC ENVIRONMENTS; FUTURE CHALLENGES; NOISE-ROBUST ASR; SPEECH SEPARATION; SYSTEM COMBINATION;

EID: 84893704157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2013.6707723     Document Type: Conference Paper

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