%Aigaion2 BibTeX export from Idiap Publications %Saturday 21 December 2024 06:21:14 PM @TECHREPORT{Garner_Idiap-RR-15-2011, author = {Garner, Philip N.}, keywords = {aurora, Automatic Speech Recognition, cepstral normalisation, Noise Robustness}, projects = {IM2}, month = {5}, title = {Cepstral normalisation and the signal to noise ratio spectrum in automatic speech recognition.}, type = {Idiap-RR}, number = {Idiap-RR-15-2011}, year = {2011}, institution = {Idiap}, abstract = {Cepstral normalisation in automatic speech recognition is investigated in the context of robustness to additive noise. It is argued that such normalisation leads naturally to a speech feature based on signal to noise ratio rather than absolute energy (or power). Explicit calculation of this {\em SNR-cepstrum} by means of a noise estimate is shown to have theoretical and practical advantages over the usual (energy based) cepstrum. The SNR-cepstrum is shown to be almost identical to the articulation index known in psycho-acoustics. Combination of the SNR-cepstrum with the well known perceptual linear prediction method is shown to be beneficial in noisy environments.}, pdf = {https://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2010/Garner_Idiap-RR-15-2011.pdf} }