Medium-duration modulation cepstral feature for robust speech recognition

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1749-1753

  Mitra, Vikramjit ^a   Franco, Horacio ^a   Graciarena, Martin ^a   Vergyri, Dimitra ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

large vocabulary continuous speech recognition; modulation features; noise robust speech recognition

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; MODULATION; SPEECH; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; DEFENSE ADVANCE RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCIES; LARGE VOCABULARY CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; MODULATION FEATURES; NOISE ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84905269267     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6853898     Document Type: Conference Paper

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