Abstract

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Chapter 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.1. Approaches to Overcoming Environmental Variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.1.1. Re-Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.1.2. Multi-Style Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.1.3. Environmental Compensation Using Dynamic Adaptation . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.2. Towards Environment-Independent Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.2.1. Sources of Environmental Variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.2.2. Performance Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.3. Dissertation Outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Chapter 2 Overview of Environmental Robustness in Speech Recognition . . . . . . 12 2.1. Sources of Degradation...

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