Characterizing silent and pseudo-silent speech using radar-like sensors

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 628-631

  Holzrichter, John F ^a,b  

^a Fannie and John Hertz Foundation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

EM speech sensor; Radar speech; Silent speech

Indexed keywords

CONTACT EVENT; EM SPEECH SENSOR; MACHINE CONTROLS; OTHER APPLICATIONS; SHAPE CHANGE; SILENT SPEECH;

RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SENSORS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450206215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

1. J.F. Holzrichter, W.A., Lea, T.E. McEwan, L.C. Ng, and G.C. Burnett, "Speech Coding, Recognition, and Synthesis using Radar and Acoustic Sensors" University of Calif. Report UCRL-ID-123687, June 1996 See also www.johnholzrichter.com for collected lectures and papers on this topic.
2. J.F. Holzrichter.; G.C. Burnett; L.C. Ng; and W.A. Lea, Speech articulator measurements using low power EM-wave sensor, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 103 (1) 622,1998.
3. T.E. McEwan See US patent literature for representative circuit descriptions , e.g., see US 5523760 "Ultra-wide band Receiver" and subsequent patents referenced to it.
4. J.F. Holzricher, L.C. Ng, G.J. Burke, N.J. Champagne, J.S. Kallman, R.M. Sharpe, J.B. Kobler, R.E. Hillman, and J.J. Rosowski "Measurements of glottal structure dynamics" J.Acoust. Soc. Am. 117 (3), Pt. 1, Mar 2005, p 1373.
5. T.E. McEwan and J.F. Holzrichter , unpublished experiments 1995.
6. Jawbone is a Bluetooth ear-pod product made by Aleph Inc. It uses a 2nd acoustic sensor to detect glottal vibrations from the jaw, cheek bones, and skin in order to perform denoising tasks.