Presentation 2008-03-20
Improvement of robustness using selective sound segregation for automatic speech recognition systems in noisy environments
Atsushi HANIU, Masashi UNOKI, Masato AKAGI,
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Abstract(in English) This paper proposes the concept of our novel robust speech recognition method based on the selective sound segregation model, and demonstrates that the proposed method can play an effective role to improve robustness of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems in various noisy environments. Almost all ASR systems for noise environments attempt to transform an input sound into a clean speech or reference patterns into ones adapted for noises using a noise model, and calculate similarity between an input sound and reference patterns. In our proposed method, the possibility of existence of a target speech in an input sound is employed as a measure of recognition. The possibility of existence of a target speech is calculated by validity of the selective sound segregation model without any noise model. An ASR system based on our proposed method was implemented. To evaluate our proposed ASR system, Japanese digits recognitions in various noisy environments were carried out using traditional ASR systems and the proposed one. Results showed that the proposed method is more robust than other in experimental conditions in SNR = 0 dB. These indicate the proposed method can play an effective role to improve robustness of the ASR systems.
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Keyword(in English) Speech recognition / Noisy environment / Improving robustness / Bregman's regularities / Selective sound segregation
Paper # SP2007-196
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Conference Date 2008/3/13(1days)
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Title (in English) Improvement of robustness using selective sound segregation for automatic speech recognition systems in noisy environments
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Keyword(1) Speech recognition
Keyword(2) Noisy environment
Keyword(3) Improving robustness
Keyword(4) Bregman's regularities
Keyword(5) Selective sound segregation
1st Author's Name Atsushi HANIU
1st Author's Affiliation School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology()
2nd Author's Name Masashi UNOKI
2nd Author's Affiliation School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
3rd Author's Name Masato AKAGI
3rd Author's Affiliation School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Date 2008-03-20
Paper # SP2007-196
Volume (vol) vol.107
Number (no) 551
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 6
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