Recognition experiments with the SpeechDat-Car Aurora Spanish database using 8 kHz- and 16 kHz-sampled signals

Like the other SpeechDat-Car databases, the Spanish one has been collected using a 16 kHz sampling frequency, and several microphone positions and environmental noises. We aim at clarifying whether there is any advantage in terms of recognition performance from processing the 16 kHz-sampled signals instead of the usual 8 kHz-sampled ones. Recognition tests have been carried out within the Aurora experimental framework, which includes signals from both a close-talking microphone and a distant microphone. Our preliminary results indicate that it is possible to get a performance improvement from the increased bandwidth in the noisy car environment.