Title :
Mean compensation based on projection-based group delay scheme for noisy speech recognition
Author :
Huang, Kuo-Chang ; Tung, Shin-Lun ; Juang, Yau-Tarng
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Central Univ., Chung-Li, Taiwan
fDate :
8/19/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A mean vector compensation technique based on the projection-based group delay scheme has been combined with a semi-continuous HMM to improve the recognition rate in noisy environments. The proposed approach compensates the mean vector using a projection-based scale factor and bias estimated from the training and/or testing data to balance the mismatch between different environments. Experiments show that the significant improvement in speaker-dependent, isolated word recognition was achieved by adding the projection-based scale factor and mean vector bias
Keywords :
compensation; delays; hidden Markov models; noise; speech recognition; bias estimation; isolated word recognition; mean vector bias; mean vector compensation technique; noisy environments; noisy speech recognition; projection-based group delay scheme; projection-based scale factor; recognition rate; semi-continuous HMM; speaker-dependent recognition;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19990982