The search functionality is under construction.
The search functionality is under construction.

Author Search Result

[Author] Woo KYEONG SEONG(1hit)

1-1hit
  • Reducing Speech Noise for Patients with Dysarthria in Noisy Environments

    Woo KYEONG SEONG  Ji HUN PARK  Hong KOOK KIM  

     
    PAPER-Speech and Hearing

      Vol:
    E97-D No:11
      Page(s):
    2881-2887

    Dysarthric speech results from damage to the central nervous system involving the articulator, which can mainly be characterized by poor articulation due to irregular sub-glottal pressure, loudness bursts, phoneme elongation, and unexpected pauses during utterances. Since dysarthric speakers have physical disabilities due to the impairment of their nervous system, they cannot easily control electronic devices. For this reason, automatic speech recognition (ASR) can be a convenient interface for dysarthric speakers to control electronic devices. However, the performance of dysarthric ASR severely degrades when there is background noise. Thus, in this paper, we propose a noise reduction method that improves the performance of dysarthric ASR. The proposed method selectively applies either a Wiener filtering algorithm or a Kalman filtering algorithm according to the result of voiced or unvoiced classification. Then, the performance of the proposed method is compared to a conventional Wiener filtering method in terms of ASR accuracy.