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Author | Ishi, C.T. Matsuda, S. Kanda, T. Jitsuhiro, T. Ishiguro, H. Nakamura, S. Hagita, N. |
Copyright Year | 2006 |
Description | Author affiliation: Intelligent Robotics & Commun. Labs., ATR, Kyoto (Ishi, C.T.) |
Abstract | The application range of communication robots could be widely expanded by the use of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system with improved robustness for noise and for speakers of different ages. In this paper, we describe an ASR system which can robustly recognize speech by adults and children in noisy environments. We evaluate the ASR system in a communication robot placed in a real noisy environment. Speech is captured using a twelve-element microphone array arranged in the robot chest. To suppress interference and noise and to attenuate reverberation, we implemented a multi-channel system consisting of an outlier-robust generalized sidelobe canceller (RGSC) technique and a feature-space noise suppression using MMSE criteria. Speech activity periods are detected using GMM-based end-point detection (GMM-EPD). Our ASR system has two decoders for adults' and children's speech. The final hypothesis is selected based on posterior probability. We then assign a generalized word posterior probability (GWPP)-based confidence measure to this hypothesis, and if it is higher than a threshold, we transfer it to a subsequent dialog processing module. The performance of each step was evaluated for adults' and children's speech, by adding different levels of real environment noise recorded in a cafeteria. Experimental results indicated that our ASR system could achieve over 80 % word accuracy in 70 dBA noise. Further evaluation of adult speech recorded in a real noisy environment resulted in 73 % word accuracy |
Starting Page | 340 |
Ending Page | 345 |
File Size | 7910638 |
Page Count | 6 |
File Format | |
ISBN | 1424401992 |
DOI | 10.1109/ICHR.2006.321294 |
Language | English |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) |
Publisher Date | 2006-12-04 |
Publisher Place | Italy |
Access Restriction | Subscribed |
Rights Holder | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) |
Subject Keyword | Speech analysis robustness Microphone arrays Communication robots Robotics and automation children speech Automatic speech recognition Interference suppression speech recognition Working environment noise Speech recognition Noise cancellation Noise robustness Robots acoustic noise |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Article |
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