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A biological front-end processing for speech recognition

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Biological and Artificial Computation: From Neuroscience to Technology (IWANN 1997)

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In this paper, a new method for extracting formants is provided. It presents low computational cost compared with other similar models and the robustness inherent to physiological systems. This will be achieved using a place-time strategy which uses temporal information for low characteristic frequency fibers and spatial information for higher ones.

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  1. Laboratorio de Comunicación Oral Robert W. Newcomb Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo-Boadilla del Monte, 28660, Madrid, Spain

    J. M. Ferrández, D. del Valle, V. Rodellar & P. Gómez

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Ferrández, J.M., del Valle, D., Rodellar, V., Gómez, P. (1997). A biological front-end processing for speech recognition. In: Mira, J., Moreno-Díaz, R., Cabestany, J. (eds) Biological and Artificial Computation: From Neuroscience to Technology. IWANN 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1240. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0032565

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