INCORPORATING PHONETIC KNOWLEDGE INTO AN EVOLUTIONARY SUBSPACE APPROACH FOR ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION

S.A. Selouani, D. O’Shaughnessy, and J. Caelen

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