Title :
Speech enhancement using nullspace-based sound field control for barge-in free spoken dialogue interface
Author :
Miyabe, Shigeki ; Saruwatari, Hiroshi ; Shikano, Kiyohiro ; Tatekura, Yosuke
Author_Institution :
Nara Inst. of Sci. & Technol.
Abstract :
This paper describes a new small-scale interface for a barge-in free spoken dialogue system combining a multichannel sound field control and a microphone array, in which the response sound from the system can be canceled out at the microphone points. The conventional method inhibits the user from moving because the system forces the user to stay in the fixed position where the response sound is reproduced. However, since the proposed method doesn´t arrange the control points for the reproduction of the response sound to the user, the user´s move is allowed. Furthermore, relaxation of the strict reproduction for the response sound enables us to design a stable system with fewer loudspeakers than the conventional method. The proposed method shows higher performances in the speech recognition experiments
Keywords :
acoustic field; interactive systems; microphone arrays; speech enhancement; speech recognition; barge-in free spoken dialogue interface; loudspeakers; microphone array; multichannel sound field control; nullspace-based sound field control; speech enhancement; speech recognition; Control systems; Degradation; Ear; Echo cancellers; Loudspeakers; Microphone arrays; Robust control; Speech enhancement; Speech recognition; Transfer functions;
Conference_Titel :
Statistical Signal Processing, 2005 IEEE/SP 13th Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Novosibirsk
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9403-8
DOI :
10.1109/SSP.2005.1628699