A distributed system for recognizing home automation commands and distress calls in the italian language

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2049-2053

  Principi, Emanuele ^a   Squartini, Stefano ^a   Piazza, Francesco ^a   Fuselli, Danilo ^b   Bonifazi, Maurizio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b FBT Elettronica Spa ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Ambient assisted living; Automatic speech recognition; Emergency state recognition; Home automation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ECHO SUPPRESSION; INTERNET TELEPHONY; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AMBIENT ASSISTED LIVING; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; EMERGENCY STATE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCES; HANDS-FREE COMMUNICATIONS; HOME AUTOMATION; INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION ENGINE;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 84906223233     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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