Vocal tract normalization as linear transformation of MFCC

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1445-1448

  Pitz, Michael ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JACOBIAN MATRICES; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CEPSTRAL DOMAIN; GAUSSIAN EMISSION; JACOBIAN DETERMINANTS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD LINEAR REGRESSION; MEL FREQUENCIES; MEL FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL CO-EFFICIENT; TRANSFORMATION MATRICES; VOCAL-TRACTS;

LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 85009174854     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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