Overview

Automatic speech recognition suffers from a lack of robustness with respect to noise, reverberation and interfering speech. The growing field of speech recognition in the presence of missing or uncertain input data seeks to ameliorate those problems by using not only a preprocessed speech signal but also an estimate of its reliability to selectively focus on those segments and features that are most reliable for recognition. This book presents the state of the art in recognition in the presence of uncertainty, offering examples that utilize uncertainty information for noise robustness, reverberation robustness, simultaneous recognition of multiple speech signals, and audiovisual speech recognition. The book is appropriate for scientists and researchers in the field of speech recognition who will find an overview of the state of the art in robust speech recognition, professionals working in speech recognition who will find strategies for improving recognition results in various conditions of mismatch, and lecturers of advanced courses on speech processing or speech recognition who will find a reference and a comprehensive introduction to the field. The book assumes an understanding of the fundamentals of speech recognition using Hidden Markov Models.

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Author:   Dorothea Kolossa ,  Reinhold Haeb-Umbach
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   2011 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.764kg
ISBN:  

9783642213168

ISBN 10:   3642213162
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   14 July 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chap. 1 – Introduction.- Part I – Theoretical Foundations.- Chap. 2 – Uncertainty Decoding and Conditional Bayesian Estimation.- Chap. 3 – Uncertainty Propagation.- Part II – Applications.- Chap. 4 – Front-End, Back-End, and Hybrid Techniques for Noise-Robust Speech Recognition.- Chap. 5 – Model-Based Approaches to Handling Uncertainty.- Chap. 6 – Reconstructing Noise-Corrupted Spectrographic Components for Robust Speech Recognition.- Chap. 7 – Automatic Speech Recognition Using Missing Data Techniques: Handling of Real-World Data.- Chap. 8 – Conditional Bayesian Estimation Employing a Phase-Sensitive Estimation Model for Noise-Robust Speech Recognition.-   Part III – Reverberation Robustness.- Chap. 9 – Variance Compensation for Recognition of Reverberant Speech with Dereverberation Processing.- Chap. 10 – A Model-Based Approach to Joint Compensation of Noise and Reverberation for Speech Recognition.- Part IV – Applications: Multiple Speakers and Modalities.- Chap. 11 – Evidence Modelling for Missing Data Speech Recognition Using Small Microphone Arrays.- Chap. 12 – Recognition of Multiple Speech Sources Using ICA.- Chap. 13 – Use of Missing and Unreliable Data for Audiovisual Speech Recognition.-   Index.

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dorothea Kolossa is a professor at the Institut fur Kommunikationsakustik of the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany; her research interests are automatic speech recognition, digital speech signal processing, and blind source separation. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Reinhold Haeb-Umbach heads the Dept. of Communications Engineering of the University of Paderborn, Germany; his research interest are speech signal processing and automatic speech recognition, statistical learning and pattern recognition, and signal processing for digital communications.

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