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Journal Article Development of an Optimized Feature Extraction Algorithm for Throat Signal Analysis
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Authors
Young-Giu Jung, Mun-Sung Han, Sang Jo Lee
Issue Date
2007-06
Citation
ETRI Journal, v.29, no.3, pp.292-299
ISSN
1225-6463
Publisher
한국전자통신연구원 (ETRI)
Language
English
Type
Journal Article
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.4218/etrij.07.0506.0040
Abstract
In this paper, we present a speech recognition system using a throat microphone. The use of this kind of microphone minimizes the impact of environmental noise. Due to the absence of high frequencies and the partial loss of formant frequencies, previous systems using throat microphones have shown a lower recognition rate than systems which use standard microphones. To develop a high performance automatic speech recognition (ASR) system using only a throat microphone, we propose two methods. First, based on Korean phonological feature theory and a detailed throat signal analysis, we show that it is possible to develop an ASR system using only a throat microphone, and propose conditions of the feature extraction algorithm. Second, we optimize the zerocrossing with peak amplitude (ZCPA) algorithm to guarantee the high performance of the ASR system using only a throat microphone. For ZCPA optimization, we propose an intensification of the formant frequencies and a selection of cochlear filters. Experimental results show that this system yields a performance improvement of about 4% and a reduction in time complexity of 25% when compared to the performance of a standard ZCPA algorithm on throat microphone signals.