Recognition of isolated words based on psychoacoustics and neurobiology
Speech Communication - Neurospeech
Speech recognition by machines and humans
Speech Communication
Speech Communication - Special issue on robust speech recognition
Temporal patterns (TRAPs) in ASR of noisy speech
ICASSP '99 Proceedings of the Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1999. on 1999 IEEE International Conference - Volume 01
Impact of vocal effort variability on automatic speech recognition
Speech Communication
A clustering based feature selection method in spectro-temporal domain for speech recognition
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
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The effect of bio-inspired spectro-temporal processing for automatic speech recognition (ASR) is analyzed for two different tasks with focus on the robustness of spectro-temporal Gabor features in comparison to mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs). Experiments aiming at extrinsic factors such as additive noise and changes of the transmission channel were carried out on a digit classification task (AURORA 2) for which spectro-temporal features were found to be more robust than the MFCC baseline against a wide range of noise sources. Intrinsic variations, i.e., changes in speaking rate, speaking effort and pitch, were analyzed on a phoneme recognition task with matched training and test conditions. The sensitivity of Gabor and MFCC features against various speaking styles was found to be different in a systematic way. An analysis based on phoneme confusions for both feature types suggests that spectro-temporal and purely spectral features carry complementary information. The usefulness of the combined information was demonstrated in a system using a combination of both types of features which yields a decrease in word-error rate of 16% compared to the best single-stream recognizer and 47% compared to an MFCC baseline.