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Accession Number:
ADA197093
Title:
Robust Recognition of Loud and Lombard speech in the Fighter Cockpit Environment
Descriptive Note:
Doctoral thesis
Corporate Author:
AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH
Report Date:
1988-08-01
Pagination or Media Count:
437.0
Abstract:
There are a number of challenges associated with incorporating speech recognition technology into the fighter cockpit. One of the major problems is the wide range of variability in the pilots voice. That can result from changing levels of stress and workload. Increasing the training set to include abnormal speech is not an attractive option because of the innumerable conditions that would have to be represented and the inordinate amount of time to collect such a training set. A more promising approach is to study subsets of abnormal speech that have been produced under controlled cockpit conditions with the purpose of characterizing reliable shifts that occur relative to normal speech. Such was the initiative of this research. Analyses were conducted for 18 features on 17671 phoneme tokens across eight speakers for normal, loud, and Lombard speech. It was discovered that there was a consistent migration of energy in the sonorants. This discovery of reliable energy shifts led to the development of a method to reduce or eliminate these shifts in the Euclidean distances between LPC log magnitude spectra. This combination significantly improved recognition performance of loud and Lombard speech. Discrepancies in recognition error rates between normal and abnormal speech were reduced by approximately 50 for all eight speakers combined. Theses.
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
