CONF sgarimel:eusipco:2008/IDIAP Emulating Temporal Receptive Fields of Auditory Mid-Brain Neurons for Automatic Speech Recognition Sivaram, G. S. V. S. Hermansky, Hynek EXTERNAL http://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/papers/2008/sgarimel-eusipco-2008.pdf PUBLIC http://publications.idiap.ch/index.php/publications/showcite/sgarimel:rr08-24 Related documents Proc. 16th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) 2008 IDIAP-RR 08-24 This paper proposes modifications to the Multi-resolution RASTA (MRASTA) feature extraction technique for the automatic speech recognition (ASR). By emulating asymmetries of the temporal receptive field (TRF) profiles of auditory mid-brain neurons, we obtain more than $13\% $ relative improvement in word error rate on OGI-Digits database. Experiments on TIMIT database confirm that proposed modifications are indeed useful. REPORT sgarimel:rr08-24/IDIAP Emulating Temporal Receptive Fields of Auditory Mid-Brain Neurons for Automatic Speech Recognition Sivaram, G. S. V. S. Hermansky, Hynek EXTERNAL http://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2008/sgarimel-idiap-rr-08-24.pdf PUBLIC Idiap-RR-24-2008 2008 IDIAP This paper proposes modifications to the Multi-resolution RASTA (MRASTA) feature extraction technique for the automatic speech recognition (ASR). By emulating asymmetries of the temporal receptive field (TRF) profiles of auditory mid-brain neurons, we obtain more than $13\% $ relative improvement in word error rate on OGI-Digits database. Experiments on TIMIT database confirm that proposed modifications are indeed useful.