Estimating uncertainty to improve exemplar-based feature enhancement for noise robust speech recognition

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 368-380

  Kallasjoki, Heikki ^a   Gemmeke, Jort F ^b   Palomäki, Kalle J ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Exemplar based; Noise robustness; Observation uncertainty; Speech recognition; Uncertainty estimation

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; ACOUSTIC NOISE; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SEPARATION; SOURCE SEPARATION; SPEECH; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; EXEMPLAR-BASED; FEATURE ENHANCEMENT; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; NOISE ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; NOISE ROBUSTNESS; OBSERVATION UNCERTAINTIES; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84897933562     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2013.2292328     Document Type: Article

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