Spectro-temporal directional derivative features for automatic speech recognition

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 872-875

  Gibson, James ^a   Van Segbroeck, Maarten ^a   Ortega, Antonio ^a   Georgiou, Panayiotis ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Directional wavelet transforms; Spectro temporal features

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; DIRECTIONAL DERIVATIVE; DIRECTIONAL WAVELET TRANSFORM; FEATURE REPRESENTATION; ROBUST AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPECTRO-TEMPORAL FEATURES; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION; WAVELET TRANSFORMATIONS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84906282217     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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