Wrigley, S.N., Brown, G.J., Wan, V. et al. (1 more author) (2005) Speech and crosstalk detection in multichannel audio. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 13 (1). pp. 84-91. ISSN 1063-6676
Abstract
The analysis of scenarios in which a number of microphones record the activity of speakers, such as in a round-table meeting, presents a number of computational challenges. For example, if each participant wears a microphone, speech from both the microphone's wearer (local speech) and from other participants (crosstalk) is received. The recorded audio can be broadly classified in four ways: local speech, crosstalk plus local speech, crosstalk alone and silence. We describe two experiments related to the automatic classification of audio into these four classes. The first experiment attempted to optimize a set of acoustic features for use with a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) classifier. A large set of potential acoustic features were considered, some of which have been employed in previous studies. The best-performing features were found to be kurtosis, "fundamentalness," and cross-correlation metrics. The second experiment used these features to train an ergodic hidden Markov model classifier. Tests performed on a large corpus of recorded meetings show classification accuracies of up to 96%, and automatic speech recognition performance close to that obtained using ground truth segmentation.
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Keywords: | feature extraction, crosstalk, cochannel interference, Gaussian mixture model, hidden Markov models (HMM), speech recognition |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Computer Science (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Sherpa Assistant |
Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2005 |
Last Modified: | 06 Jun 2014 12:58 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSA.2004.838531 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1109/TSA.2004.838531 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:812 |