Environmental Robustness

Springer Handbooks

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 653-680

  Droppo, Jasha ^a   Acero, Alex ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic Model; Clean Speech; Noisy Speech; Speech Enhancement; Speech Recognition System

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901773892     PISSN: 25228692     EISSN: 25228706     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-49127-9_33     Document Type: Chapter

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