Presentation 2015-12-02
Distant-talking speech recognition by reverberation-aware denoising autoencoder
Yuma Ueda, Longbiao Wang, Atsuhiko Kai,
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Abstract(in English) In the distant-talking speech recognition, it is essential to deal with the noise and reverberation.Denoising autoencoder (DAE) is known to be effective as a method for removing these influences.However, conventional DAE is easily affected by mismatch between training data and test data because the performance of DAE depend on the environment or amount of data included in the training set.In this study, we also use reverberation features estimated by Multi Step Linear Prediction (MSLP) as additional to input of DAE.By explicitly considering the effects of reverberation, we solve the problems in conventional DAE-based system.We evaluate the proposed method by using the ``REVERB challenge'' (Reverberant Voice Enhancement and Recognition Benchmark) dataset.For SimData, the average Word Error Rate (WER) was reduced from 7.12% to 6.41%.For RealData, the average WER was reduced from 30.56% to 26.83%.
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Keyword(in English) speech recognition / dereverberation / denoising autoencoder / distant-talking speech
Paper # SP2015-77
Date of Issue 2015-11-25 (SP)

Conference Information
Committee NLC / IPSJ-NL / SP / IPSJ-SLP
Conference Date 2015/12/2(3days)
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Place (in English) Nagoya Inst of Tech.
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Topics (in English) The Second Natural Language Processing Symposium & The 17th Spoken Language Symposium
Chair Koichi Takeuchi(Okayama Univ.) / Kentaro Inui(Tohoku Univ.) / Kazunori Mano(Shibaura Inst. of Tech.) / Koichi Shinoda(東工大)
Vice Chair Hiroshi Kanayama(IBM) / Makoto Ichise(NTT DoCoMo) / / Norihide Kitaoka(Tokushima Univ.)
Secretary Hiroshi Kanayama(Univ. of Tokyo/Hottolink) / Makoto Ichise(Ryukoku Univ.) / (Osaka Univ.) / Norihide Kitaoka(Tohoku Univ.) / (Mixi Co. Ltd.)
Assistant Kazutaka Shimada(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.) / Ryuichiro Higashinaka(NTT) / / Takashi Nose(Tohoku Univ.) / Taichi Asami(NTT)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Natural Language Understanding and Models of Communication / Special Interest Group on Natural Language / Technical Committee on Speech / Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Processing
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Distant-talking speech recognition by reverberation-aware denoising autoencoder
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) speech recognition
Keyword(2) dereverberation
Keyword(3) denoising autoencoder
Keyword(4) distant-talking speech
1st Author's Name Yuma Ueda
1st Author's Affiliation Shizuoka University(Shizuoka Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Longbiao Wang
2nd Author's Affiliation Nagaoka University of Technology(Nagaoka Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Atsuhiko Kai
3rd Author's Affiliation Shizuoka University(Shizuoka Univ.)
Date 2015-12-02
Paper # SP2015-77
Volume (vol) vol.115
Number (no) SP-346
Page pp.pp.55-60(SP),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2015-11-25 (SP)