Title :
A Companding Front End for Noise-Robust Automatic Speech Recognition
Author :
Guinness, Jethran ; Raj, Bhiksha ; Schmidt-Nielsen, Bent ; Turicchia, Lorenzo ; Sarpeshkar, Rahul
Author_Institution :
Mitsubishi Electr. Res. Labs., Cambridge, MA, USA
fDate :
March 18-23, 2005
Keywords :
compandors; hearing; speech recognition; ASR feature computation modules; SNR; automatic speech recognition; companding speech processing front end; critical band response; equal loudness characteristics; human auditory system; noise-robust ASR; simultaneous masking; speech recognizer; word error rate; Acoustic noise; Auditory system; Automatic speech recognition; Frequency; Humans; Noise robustness; Signal processing; Speech analysis; Speech enhancement; Speech recognition;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2005. Proceedings. (ICASSP '05). IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8874-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1415097
