| Presentation | 2016-10-27 Voice Activity Detection Using Throat Microphone and Lavalier Microphone for Multi-Party Conversations Yoshihiro Otaka, Takashi Tsunakawa, Masafumi Nishida, Masafumi Nishimura, |
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| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | For analyzing multi-party conversations, accurate identification of the speaker and speech segment is important. For more accurate separation of the speech segments, multi-channel recording by using headset microphones is usually tried. Nevertheless, it has been difficult to detect the back-channel feedback and sympathize section, which tend to be superimposed on speech of the surrounding speaker. In this paper, we use throat microphone for stable recording of the target speaker without capturing the surrounding speech in the multi-party conversation. We propose a voice activity detection method using 2ch recording of throat microphone and lavalier microphone. The experimental results showed an improvement of voice activity detection performance by the proposed method. Besides, we developed on-line recording system working on smartphone to efficiently collect the Multi-party conversations. Furthermore, we collected multi-party conversations with elderly people and evaluated a voice activity detection performance of the proposed method. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | Voice Activity Detection / GMM / Throat Microphone / Multi-party Conversation |
| Paper # | SP2016-43 |
| Date of Issue | 2016-10-20 (SP) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | SP |
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| Conference Date | 2016/10/27(1days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Shizuoka University. |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Learning, Recognition, Synthesis, Dialogue, etc. |
| Chair | Kazunori Mano(Shibaura Inst. of Tech.) |
| Vice Chair | Hiroki Mori(Utsunomiya Univ.) |
| Secretary | Hiroki Mori(Kobe Univ.) |
| Assistant | Taichi Asami(NTT) / Kei Hashimoto(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) |
| Paper Information | |
| Registration To | Technical Committee on Speech |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | Voice Activity Detection Using Throat Microphone and Lavalier Microphone for Multi-Party Conversations |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | Voice Activity Detection |
| Keyword(2) | GMM |
| Keyword(3) | Throat Microphone |
| Keyword(4) | Multi-party Conversation |
| 1st Author's Name | Yoshihiro Otaka |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Shizuoka University(Shizuoka Univ.) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Takashi Tsunakawa |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Shizuoka University(Shizuoka Univ.) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Masafumi Nishida |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Shizuoka University(Shizuoka Univ.) |
| 4th Author's Name | Masafumi Nishimura |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Shizuoka University(Shizuoka Univ.) |
| Date | 2016-10-27 |
| Paper # | SP2016-43 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.116 |
| Number (no) | SP-279 |
| Page | pp.pp.15-20(SP), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2016-10-20 (SP) |