Exploiting polynomial-fit histogram equalization and temporal average for robust speech recognition

Shih Hsiang Lin*, Yao Ming Yeh, Berlin Chen

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Abstract

The performance of current automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems radically deteriorates when the input speech is corrupted by various kinds of noise sources. Quite a few of techniques have been proposed to improve ASR robustness in the past several years. Histogram equalization (HEQ) is one of the most efficient techniques that have been used to compensate the nonlinear distortion. In this paper, we explored the use of the data fitting scheme to efficiently approximate the inverse of the cumulative density function of training speech for HEQ, in contrast to the conventional table-lookup or quantile based approaches. Moreover, the temporal average operation was also performed on the feature vector components to alleviate the influence of sharp peaks and valleys that were caused by non-stationary noises. Finally, we also investigated the possibility of combining our approaches with other feature discrimination and decorrelation methods. All experiments were carried out on the Aurora-2 database and task. Encouraging results were initially demonstrated.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationINTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP
PublisherInternational Speech Communication Association
Pages2522-2525
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9781604234497
Publication statusPublished - 2006
EventINTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP - Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Duration: 2006 Sept 172006 Sept 21

Publication series

NameINTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP
Volume5

Other

OtherINTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPittsburgh, PA
Period2006/09/172006/09/21

Keywords

  • Data fitting
  • Histogram equalization
  • Robustness
  • Temporal average

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science

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