Title
Enhanced lengthening cancellation using bidirectional pitch similarity alignment for spontaneous speech
Abstract
In this work, an enhanced lengthening cancellation method is proposed to detect and cancel the lengthening part of vowels. The proposed method consists of autocorrelation function, cosine similarity-based lengthening detection and bidirectional pitch contour alignment. Autocorrelation function is used to obtain the reference pitch contour. Cosine similarity-based method is applied to measure the similarity between the reference and the next adjacent pitch contours. Due to the variant lengths of periodic segments, fixed size frames may cause accumulative errors. Therefore, bidirectional pitch contour alignment is adopted in this study. Experiments indicate that the proposed method can achieve an accuracy rate of 91.4% and 88.7% on a 60-keyword and 50-scentence database, respectively. Moreover, the proposed approach performs about three times speed than the baseline. Such results prove the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ISCSLP.2012.6423517
ISCSLP
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
50-scentence database,speech processing,spontaneous speech,lengthening cancellation,spontaneous speech recognition,enhanced lengthening cancellation,bidirectional pitch contour alignment,60-keyword database,keyword spotting,speech preprocessing,bidirectional pitch similarity alignment,cosine similarity-based lengthening detection,vowels,pitch contour alignment
Conference
978-1-4673-2505-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Po-Yi Shih1365.61
Bo-Wei Chen226230.12
Jhing-fa Wang3982114.31
Jhing-Wei Wu400.34