Perceptual features for automatic speech recognition in noisy environments
Speech Communication
Speech enhancement based conceptually on auditory evidence
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Automatic speech recognition with an adaptation model motivated by auditory processing
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
Context-Dependent Pre-Trained Deep Neural Networks for Large-Vocabulary Speech Recognition
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
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A nonlinear speech feature extraction algorithm was developed by modeling human cochlear functions, and demonstrated as a noise-robust front-end for speech recognition systems. The algorithm was based on a model of the Organ of Corti in the human cochlea with such features as such as basilar membrane (BM), outer hair cells (OHCs), and inner hair cells (IHCs). Frequency-dependent nonlinear compression and amplification of OHCs were modeled by lateral inhibition to enhance spectral contrasts. In particular, the compression coefficients had frequency dependency based on the psychoacoustic evidence. Spectral subtraction and temporal adaptation were applied in the time-frame domain. With long-term and short-term adaptation characteristics, these factors remove stationary or slowly varying components and amplify the temporal changes such as onset or offset. The proposed features were evaluated with a noisy speech database and showed better performance than the baseline methods such as mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) and RASTA-PLP in unknown noisy conditions.