An ideal hidden-activation mask for deep neural networks based noise-robust speech recognition

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 200-204

  Li, Bo ^a   Sim, Khe Chai ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Deep Neural Networks; Noise Robustness

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; MASK ESTIMATIONS; NOISE ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; NOISE ROBUSTNESS; PARALLEL DATA; REDUCING NOISE; SPECTRAL DOMAINS; SPECTRAL MASKING;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84905216746     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6853586     Document Type: Conference Paper

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