Design and Optimization of a Speech Recognition Front-End for Distant-Talking Control of a Music Playback Device

Front-end processing of a distant-talking speech interface for control of an interactive TV system

Speech-Recognition Interfaces for Music Information Retrieval: 'Speech Completion' and 'Speech Spotter'

This paper describes music information retrieval (MIR) systems featuring automatic speech recognition. Although various interfaces for MIR have been proposed, speech-recognition interfaces suitable for retrieving musical pieces have not been studied. We propose two different speech-recognition interfaces for MIR, speech completion and speech spotter, and describe two MIR-based hands-free jukebo...

Deep neural network-based bottleneck feature and denoising autoencoder-based dereverberation for distant-talking speaker identification

Deep neural network (DNN)-based approaches have been shown to be effective in many automatic speech recognition systems. However, few works have focused on DNNs for distant-talking speaker recognition. In this study, a bottleneck feature derived from a DNN and a cepstral domain denoising autoencoder (DAE)-based dereverberation are presented for distant-talking speaker identification, and a comb...

A Stereophonic Acoustic Front-End for Distant-Talking Interfaces based on Blind Source Separation

In this contribution, an acoustic front-end for distanttalking interfaces that only requires two microphone signals is presented. It comprises a directional blind source separation (BSS)-based noise and interference estimation scheme and Wiener-type filters for noise and interference suppression. The proposed front-end and its integration into a speech recognition system is analyzed and evaluat...

Suitable Design of Adaptive Beamform Spectrum for Noisy Speec

Recognition of distant-talking speech is indispensable for self-moving robots or tele-conference systems. However, background noise and room reverberations seriously degrade the sound capture quality in real acoustic environments. A microphone array is an ideal candidate as an effective method for capturing distant-talking speech. AMNOR (Adaptive Microphone-array for NOise Reduction) was propos...