INTERSPEECH 2004 - ICSLP 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing Jeju Island, Korea October 4-8, 2004

Hands-Free Speech Recognition Using Blind Source Separation Post-Processed by Two-Stage Spectral Subtraction

Masanori Tsujikawa, Ken-ichi Iso

NEC Corporation, Japan

This paper proposes hands-free speech recognition using blind source separation (BSS) post-processed by two-stage spectral subtraction (2S-SS). The BSS using independent component analysis (ICA) estimates a target signal and jammer signals. The 2S-SS removes its residual crosstalk components and suppresses spatially-distributed noise not separated by BSS. In large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) evaluation, utterances by other speakers and computer-room noise were used as a jammer signal and a spatially distributed noise source, respectively. In all noisy environments, it was confirmed that the proposed method outperformed the BSS with single-channel spectral subtraction (1SS).

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Bibliographic reference.  Tsujikawa, Masanori / Iso, Ken-ichi (2004): "Hands-free speech recognition using blind source separation post-processed by two-stage spectral subtraction", In INTERSPEECH-2004, 2073-2076.