Acknowledgements
Table 4.4: PER(%) obtained in distant-talking scenarios with a standard RBM pre-training (Stand-PT) and with the proposed supervised close-talking pre-training (CT-PT).
['[ITALIC] TestTrain', 'APASCI (6 h) Stand-PT', 'APASCI (6 h) CT-PT', 'Euronews (100 h) Stand-PT', 'Euronews (100 h) CT-PT']
This improvement is obtained over both real and simulated data and also arises in the challenging scenarios characterized by both noise and reverberation (rev&noise).