Model-based blind estimation of reverberation time: Application to robust ASR in reverberant environments

EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 2635-2638

  Couvreur, Laurent ^a   Ris, Christophe ^a   Couvreur, Christophe ^b  

^a FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

^b NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; BLIND EQUALIZATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; REVERBERATION; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CHANNEL NORMALIZATION; ESTIMATION METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATE; REVERBERANT CONDITION; REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENT; REVERBERATION TIME; ROBUST AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL MODELING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009089849     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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