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A tissue-conductive acoustic sensor applied in speech recognition for privacy

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Author	Shikano, Kiyohiro Saruwatari, Hiroshi Nakajima, Yoshitaka Heracleous, Panikos
Abstract	In this paper, we present the Non-Audible Murmur (NAM) microphones focusing on their applications in automatic speech recognition. A NAM microphone is a special acoustic sensor attached behind the talker's ear and able to capture very quietly uttered speech (non-audible murmur) through body tissue. Previously, we reported experimental results for non-audible murmur recognition using a Stethoscope microphone in a clean environment. In this paper, we also present a more advanced NAM microphone, the so-called Silicon NAM microphone. Using a small amount of training data and adaptation approaches, we achieved a 93.9% word accuracy for a 20k vocabulary dictation task. Therefore, in situations when privacy in human-machine communication is preferable, NAM microphone can be very effectively applied for automatic recognition of speech inaudible to other listeners near the talker. Because of the nature of non-audible murmur (e.g., privacy) investigation of the behavior of NAM microphones in noisy environments is of high importance. To do this, we also conducted experiments in real and simulated noisy environments. Although, using simulated noisy data the NAM microphones show high robustness against noise, in real environments the recognition performance decreases markedly due to the effect of the Lombard reflex. In this paper, we also report experimental results showing the negative impact effect of the Lombard reflex on non-audible murmur recognition. In addition to a dictation task, we also report a keyword-spotting system based on non-audible murmur with very promising results.
Starting Page	93
Ending Page	97
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1595933042
DOI	10.1145/1107548.1107577
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2005-10-12
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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