Deep convolutional nets and robust features for reverberation-robust speech recognition

2014 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2014 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 548-553

  Mitra, Vikramjit ^a   Wang, Wen ^a   Franco, Horacio ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep convolutional networks; Feature combination; Reverberation robustness; Robust features; Robust speech recognition

Indexed keywords

BATCH DATA PROCESSING; CONVOLUTION; REVERBERATION; SPEECH;

CONVOLUTIONAL NETWORKS; FEATURE COMBINATION; REVERBERATION ROBUSTNESS; ROBUST FEATURES; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84946693063     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2014.7078633     Document Type: Conference Paper

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