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One of the goals of the EMBASSI project is the creation of a speech interface between a user and a TV set or VCR. The interface should allow spontaneous speech recorded by microphones far away from the speaker. This paper describes experiments evaluating the robustness of a speech recognizer against reverberation. For this purpose a speech corpus was recorded with several different distortion types under real-life conditions. On these data the recognition results for reverberated signals using μ -law companded features were compared to an MFCC baseline system. Trained with clear speech, the word accuracy for the μ -law features on highly reverberated signals was 3 percent points better than the baseline result.
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Haderlein, T., Stemmer, G., Nöth, E. (2003). Speech Recognition with μ -Law Companded Features on Reverberated Signals. In: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2807. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39398-6_25
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