Combating reverberation in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition

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

Volumn 2015-January, Issue , 2015, Pages 2449-2453

  Mitra, Vikramjit ^a   Van Hout, Julien ^a   McLaren, Mitchell ^a   Wang, Wen ^a   Graciarena, Martin ^a   Vergyri, Dimitra ^a   Franco, Horacio ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep neural networks; Reverberation robustness; Robust features; Robust speech recognition

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; MODELING LANGUAGES; REVERBERATION; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL (GMMS); LARGE VOCABULARY CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; REVERBERATION ROBUSTNESS; ROBUST ACOUSTIC FEATURES; ROBUST FEATURES; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84959111702     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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