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This paper presents a hybrid technique combining the Karhonen-Loeve Transform (KLT), the Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and Genetic Algorithms (GAs) to obtain less-variant Mel-frequency parameters. The advantages of such an approach are that the robustness can be reached without modifying the recognition system, and that neither assumption nor estimation of the noise are required. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, an extensive set of continuous speech recognition experiments are carried out by using the NTIMIT telephone speech database. The results show that the proposed approach outperforms the baseline and conventional systems.
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Selouani, SA., Hamam, H., O’Shaughnessy, D. (2007). A Hybrid Genetic-Neural Front-End Extension for Robust Speech Recognition over Telephone Lines. In: Chetouani, M., Hussain, A., Gas, B., Milgram, M., Zarader, JL. (eds) Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing. NOLISP 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4885. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77347-4_14
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