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Channel selection in the short-time modulation domain for distant speech recognition

Himawan et al., 2015

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4713330665088679164
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Himawan I
Motlicek P
Sridharan S
Dean D
Tjondronegoro D
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Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2015

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Automatic speech recognition from multiple distant micro-phones poses significant challenges because of noise and reverberations. The quality of speech acquisition may vary between microphones because of movements of speakers and channel distortions. This …
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