Title :
Enhanced human-computer speech interface using wavelet computing
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Technol., Payame Noor Univ., Najafabad
Abstract :
In this paper, we design an enhanced human-computer speech interface by wavelet transform. By using a new thresholding algorithm and shrink function, we improve the efficiency of the speech interface. This shrink function tries to decrease sharp time-frequency spectrogram discontinuities by attenuating the wavelet coefficients instead of setting them to zero. This attenuation will be done regarding to the wavelet coefficients distance from the threshold. By applying a lot of tests we evaluated our system for three different languages. The results confirmed the improvement in performances and achievements of our system.
Keywords :
human computer interaction; natural language interfaces; time-frequency analysis; enhanced human-computer speech interface; shrink function; thresholding algorithm; time-frequency spectrogram discontinuities; wavelet coefficients; wavelet computing; Computer interfaces; Discrete wavelet transforms; Frequency; Low-frequency noise; Noise reduction; Speech coding; Speech enhancement; Virtual environment; Wavelet coefficients; Wavelet transforms; shrink function; speech enhancement; threshold selection; waveshrink;
Conference_Titel :
Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems, 2008. VECIMS 2008. IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1927-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1928-9
DOI :
10.1109/VECIMS.2008.4592749