Dereverberation preprocessing and training data adjustments for robust speech recognition in reverberant environments

Proceedings of 10th ITG Symposium on Speech Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Schmid, Dominic ^a   Thüne, Philipp ^a   Kolossa, Dorothea ^a   Enzner, Gerald ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REVERBERATION; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; BACKGROUND NOISE; LARGE VOCABULARY SPEECH RECOGNITION; MULTICHANNEL DEREVERBERATION; PREPROCESSING APPROACHES; REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENT; REVERBERATION SUPPRESSIONS; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84947967217     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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