NDLI: Improving automatic speech recognition in noise by energy normalization and signal resynthesis

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Author	Giurgiu, M. Kabir, A.
Copyright Year	2011
Description	Author affiliation: Department of Telecommunications, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania (Giurgiu, M.; Kabir, A.)
Abstract	This paper presents the contribution of energy normalization technique in automatic speech recognition in babble noise, where machine assumes that speech and noise have the same level of energy, therefore loudness. Similarly, loudness of target speech and noise is an important contributing factor while recognizing speech by humans in everyday conditions. Louder speech is better recognized than non louder speech by humans, even if they are approaching to the listeners at a same signal to noise ratio (SNR). This phenomenon has been tested over the machines and the recognition performance roughly varies from 75% to 90% across a wide range of SNRs. In exchange, human recognition performance is more SNR-dependent: it varies from 30% to 95%. By using energy normalization, the machines have a poor recognition rate in average in comparison to the performance of humans in less noisy conditions (positive SNR), but tend to outperform humans in high noisy conditions (negative SNR like −4dB, −6dB). It is also confirmed by this study that formant processing has no significant effect in recognizing speech in noise. Subsequently, it implies that formant based vocal tract length normalization is unable to improve the performance of machines in noise.
Starting Page	311
Ending Page	314
File Size	137271
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781457714795
e-ISBN	9781457714818
DOI	10.1109/ICCP.2011.6047886
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-08-25
Publisher Place	Romania
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Humans Color speech perception Noise measurement automatic speech recognition energy normalization informational masking energetic masking Speech recognition computational modelling Speech intelligibility Signal to noise ratio
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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