Speech separation by humans and machines / edited by Pierre Divenyi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Divenyi, Pierre, 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Automatic speech recognition.

Speech perception.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 319 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Norwell, Mass. : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2005]

Summary:

The "cocktail-party effect"-the ability to focus on one voice in a sea of noises-is a highly sophisticated skill that is usually effortless to listeners but largely impossible for machines. Investigating and unraveling this capacity spans numerous fields including psychology, physiology, engineering, and computer science. All these perspectives are brought together in this volume which, for the first time, provides a comprehensive and authoritative discussion of our understanding of how humans separate speech, and the state of the art in approaching these abilities with machines.

This material is drawn from an October 2003 workshop, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, on speech separation. Leading authorities from around the world were invited to present their perspectives and discuss the points of contact to other perspectives. The result is a clear and uniform overview of this problem, and a primer in what is emerging as an important, active and successful area for the development of new techniques and applications.

Chapters include historical and current summaries of relevant research in experimental science and engineering, along with more in-depth descriptions of several of the most exciting current research projects and techniques, including the latest experimental results illuminating how listeners organize the mixtures of sound they hear, and the most powerful and successful signal processing and machine learning techniques for the separation of real-world recordings of sound mixtures by one or more microphones.

There is no comparable collection that seeks to bring together the underlying experimental science and the wide variety of technical approaches to give an integrated picture of the problem and solutions to speech separation.

Contents:

Speech Segregation: Problems and Perspectives / Chris Darwin 1

Auditory Scene Analysis: Examining the Role of Nonlinguistic Auditory Processing in Speech Perception / Elyse S. Sussman 5

Speech Separation: Further Insights from Recordings of Event-related Brain Potentials in Humans / Claude Alain 13

Recurrent Timing Nets for F0-based Speaker Separation / Peter Cariani 31

Blind Source Separation Using Graphical Models / Te-Won Lee 55

Speech Recognizer Based Maximum Likelihood Beamforming / Bhiksha Raj, Michael Seltzer, Manuel Jesus Reyes-gomez 65

Exploiting Redundancy to Construct Listening Systems / Paris Smaragdis 83

Automatic Speech Processing by Inference in Generative Models / Sam T. Roweis 97

Signal Separation Motivated by Human Auditory Perception: Applications to Automatic Speech Recognition / Richard M. Stern 135

Speech Segregation Using an Event-synchronous Auditory Image and STRAIGHT / Toshio Irino, Roy D. Patterson, Hideki Kawakhara 155

Underlying Principles of a High-quality Speech Manipulation System STRAIGHT and Its Application to Speech Segregation / Hideki Kawahara, Toshio Irino 167

On Ideal Binary Mask as the Computational Goal of Auditory Scene Analysis / Deliang Wang 181

The History and Future of CASA / Malcolm Slaney 199

Techniques For Robust Speech Recognition in Noisy and Reverberant Conditions / Guy J. Brown, Kalle J. Palomaki 213

Source Separation, Localization, and Comprehension in Humans, Machines, and Human-machine Systems / Nat Durlach 221

The Cancellation Principle in Acoustic Scene Analysis / Alain De Cheveigne 245

Informational and Energetic Masking Effects in Multitalker Speech Perception / Douglas S. Brungart 261

Masking the Feature Information in Multi-stream Speech-analogue Displays / Pierre L. Divenyi 269

Interplay Between Visual and Audio Scene Analysis / Ziyou Xiong, Thomas S. Huang 283

Evaluating Speech Separation Systems / Daniel P.W. Ellis 295

Making Sense of Everyday Speech: a Glimpsing Account / Martin Cooke 305.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1402080018

0387227946

OCLC:

56192048