Efficient MMSE Estimation and Uncertainty Processing for Multienvironment Robust Speech Recognition

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1206-1220

  González, José A ^a   Peinado, Antonio M ^a   Gómez, Angel M ^a   Carmona, José L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Feature vector compensation; minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimation; robust speech recognition; stereo data

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008009592     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: 15587924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2087753     Document Type: Article

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