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  • Speaker Tracking for Hands-Free Continuous Speech Recognition in Noise Based on a Spectrum-Entropy Beamforming Method

    George NOKAS  Evangelos DERMATAS  

     
    LETTER-Speech and Hearing

      Vol:
    E86-D No:4
      Page(s):
    755-758

    In this paper, we present a novel beam-former capable of tracking a rapidly moving speaker in a very noisy environment. The localization algorithm extracts a set of candidate direction-of-arrival (DOA) for the signal sources using array signal processing methods in the frequency domain. A minimum variance (MV) beam-former identifies the speech signal DOA in the direction where the signal's spectrum entropy is minimized. A fine tuning process detects the MV direction which is closest to the initial estimation using a smaller analysis window. Extended experiments, carried out in the range of 20-0 dB SNR, show significant improvement in the recognition rate of a moving speaker especially in very low SNRs (from 11.11% to 43.79% at 0 dB SNR in anechoic environment and from 9.9% to 30.51% in reverberant environment).