REPORT valente:rr06-20/IDIAP Discriminant linear processing of time-frequency plane Valente, Fabio Hermansky, Hynek EXTERNAL https://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2006/valente-idiap-rr-06-20.pdf PUBLIC Idiap-RR-20-2006 2006 IDIAP Published in ICSLP 2006 Extending previous works done on considerably smaller data sets, the paper studies linear discriminant analysis of about 30 hours of phoneme-labeled speech data in the time-frequency domain. Analysis is carried both independently in time and frequency and jointly. Data driven spectral basis show similar frequency sensitivity as human hearing. LDA-derived temporal FIR filters are consistent with temporal lateral inhibition. Considerable improvement is obtained using first temporal discriminant.