Title
Threshold-Based Noise Detection and Reduction for Automatic Speech Recognition System in Human-Robot Interactions.
Abstract
This work develops a speech recognition system that uses two procedures of proposed noise detection and combined noise reduction. The system can be used in applications that require interactive robots to recognize the contents of speech that includes ambient noise. The system comprises two stages, which are the threshold-based noise detection and the noise reduction procedure. In the first stage, the proposed system automatically determines when to enhance the quality of speech based on the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) values of the collected speech at all times. In the second stage, independent component analysis (ICA) and subspace speech enhancement (SSE) are employed for noise reduction. Experimental results reveal that the SNR values of the enhanced speech exceed those of the received noisy speech by approximately 20 dB to 25 dB. The noise reduction procedure improves the speech recognition rates by around 15% to 25%. The experimental results indicate that the proposed system can reduce the effect of noise in numerous noisy environments and improve the quality of speech for recognition purposes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/s18072068
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
automatic speech recognition,noise detection,noise reduction,human-robot interaction
Speech recognition,Engineering,Noise detection,Human–robot interaction
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
18
7.0
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sheng-Chieh Lee1132.32
Jhing-fa Wang2982114.31
Miao-Hia Chen330.42