A Bio-inspired Architecture for Cognitive Audio

  • Authors:
  • Pedro Gómez-Vilda;José Manuel Ferrández-Vicente;Victoria Rodellar-Biarge;Agustín Álvarez-Marquina;Luis Miguel Mazaira-Fernández

  • Affiliations:
  • Grupo de Informática Aplicada al Tratamiento de Seal e Imagen, Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, s/n, 28660 Madrid,;Dpto. Electrónica, Tecnología de Computadoras, Univ. Politécnica de Cartagena, 30202, Cartagena,;Grupo de Informática Aplicada al Tratamiento de Seal e Imagen, Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, s/n, 28660 Madrid,;Grupo de Informática Aplicada al Tratamiento de Seal e Imagen, Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, s/n, 28660 Madrid,;Grupo de Informática Aplicada al Tratamiento de Seal e Imagen, Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, s/n, 28660 Madrid,

  • Venue:
  • IWINAC '07 Proceedings of the 2nd international work-conference on The Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, Part I: Bio-inspired Modeling of Cognitive Tasks
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A comprehensive view of speech and voice technologies is now demanding better and more complex tools amenable of extracting as much knowledge about sound and speech as possible. Many knowledge-extraction tasks from speech and voice share well-known procedures at the algorithmic level under the point of view of bio-inspiration. The same resources employed to decode speech phones may be used in the characterization of the speaker (gender, age, speaking group, etc.). Based on these facts the present paper examines a hierarchy of sound processing levels at the auditory and perceptual levels on the brain neural paths which can be translated into a bio-inspired audio-processing architecture. Through this paper its fundamental characteristics are analyzed in relation with current tendencies in cognitive audio processing. Examples extracted from speech processing applications in the domain of acoustic-phonetics are presented. These may find applicability in speaker's characterization, forensics, and biometry, among others.