Distant speech recognition: No black boxes allowed

Sprachkommunikation 2008 - 8. ITG-Fachtagung

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  McDonough, John ^a   Wölfel, Matthias ^b   Kumatani, Kenichi ^a   Rauch, Barbara ^a   Faubel, Friedrich ^a   Klakow, Dietrich ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

BLACK BOXES; COMPLETE SYSTEM; DISTANT SPEECH RECOGNITION; INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85091829120     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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