Data collection for mobile audio-visual speech recognition in various environments

This paper introduces our recent activities for audio-visual speech recognition on mobile devices and data collection in various environments. Audio-visual automatic speech recognition is effective in noisy or real conditions to enhance the robustness of speech recognizer and to improve the recognition accuracy. We have developed an audio-visual speech recognition interface for mobile devices. In order to evaluate the recognizer and investigate issues related to audio-visual processing on mobile computers, we collected speech data and lip images of 16 subjects in eight conditions, where there were various audio noises and visual difficulties. Audio-only speech recognition and visual-only lipreading were then conducted. Through these experiments, we found some issues and future works not only for construction of audio-visual database but also for robust audio-visual speech recognition.