The search functionality is under construction.

IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals

Adaptive Nonlinear Regression Using Multiple Distributed Microphones for In-Car Speech Recognition

Weifeng LI, Chiyomi MIYAJIMA, Takanori NISHINO, Katsunobu ITOU, Kazuya TAKEDA, Fumitada ITAKURA

  • Full Text Views

    0

  • Cite this

Summary :

In this paper, we address issues in improving hands-free speech recognition performance in different car environments using multiple spatially distributed microphones. In the previous work, we proposed the multiple linear regression of the log spectra (MRLS) for estimating the log spectra of speech at a close-talking microphone. In this paper, the concept is extended to nonlinear regressions. Regressions in the cepstrum domain are also investigated. An effective algorithm is developed to adapt the regression weights automatically to different noise environments. Compared to the nearest distant microphone and adaptive beamformer (Generalized Sidelobe Canceller), the proposed adaptive nonlinear regression approach shows an advantage in the average relative word error rate (WER) reductions of 58.5% and 10.3%, respectively, for isolated word recognition under 15 real car environments.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E88-A No.7 pp.1716-1723
Publication Date
2005/07/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
DOI
10.1093/ietfec/e88-a.7.1716
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Multi-channel Acoustic Signal Processing)
Category
Speech Enhancement

Authors

Keyword