An approach to architectural enhancement for embedded speech applications

Author

Dey, Soumyajit ; Biswas, Susmit ; Mukhopadhyay, Arijit ; Basu, Anupam

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol., West Bengal, India

fYear

2006

fDate

3-7 Jan. 2006

Abstract

Advances in human computer interaction (HCI) technology has resulted in widespread development of natural language and speech applications. These applications are known to be computationally different from other end-user applications. In this paper, the architectural features of text to speech (TTS) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) applications have been evaluated and cost effective optimal architectural solutions have been suggested. The results have shown that low cost solutions such as ISA extension and feature addition to an existing embedded architecture can lead to appreciable improvement in performance for these applications. This work also presents a design space exploration to suggest an optimized VLIW architecture for TTS and ASR applications.

Keywords

computer architecture; embedded systems; human computer interaction; instruction sets; logic design; speech recognition; speech synthesis; VLIW architecture; automatic speech recognition applications; design space exploration; embedded architecture; embedded speech applications; feature addition; human computer interaction technology; instruction set architecture extension; text to speech applications; Application software; Automatic speech recognition; Cost function; Design optimization; Human computer interaction; Instruction sets; Natural languages; Space exploration; Speech enhancement; Speech synthesis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Design, 2006. Held jointly with 5th International Conference on Embedded Systems and Design., 19th International Conference on

ISSN

1063-9667

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2502-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VLSID.2006.37

Filename

1581479