Genetic algorithm-based improvement of robot hearing capabilities in separating and recognizing simultaneous speech signals

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4031 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 207-217

  Yamamoto, Shun'ichi ^a   Nakadai, Kazuhiro ^b   Nakano, Mikio ^b   Tsujino, Hiroshi ^b   Valin, Jean Marc ^c   Takeda, Ryu ^a   Komatani, Kazunori ^a   Ogata, Tetsuya ^a   Okuno, Hiroshi G ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE JAPAN CO LTD   (Japan)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Microphone array; Robot audition; Robot human interaction; Simultaneous Speakers; Sound source separation; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTS; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

AUTOMATIC MISSING-FEATURE-MASK GENERATION (AMG); MICROPHONE ARRAY; ROBOT AUDITION; ROBOT-HUMAN INTERACTION; SIMULTANEOUS SPEAKERS; SOUND SOURCE SEPARATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33746191291     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11779568_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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