New Ideas for Speech Recognition and Related Technologies

Holzrichter, J F

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

关键词: Vectors;    Acoustics;    Scattering;    99;    Radar;   

DOI  :  10.2172/15004194
RP-ID  :  UCRL-ID-120310
RP-ID  :  W-7405-ENG-48
RP-ID  :  15004194

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The ideas relating to the use of organ motion sensors for the purposes of speech recognition were first described by.the author in spring 1994. During the past year, a series of productive collaborations between the author, Tom McEwan and Larry Ng ensued and have lead to demonstrations, new sensor ideas, and algorithmic descriptions of a large number of speech recognition concepts. This document summarizes the basic concepts of recognizing speech once organ motions have been obtained. Micro power radars and their uses for the measurement of body organ motions, such as those of the heart and lungs, have been demonstrated by Tom McEwan over the past two years. McEwan and I conducted a series of experiments, using these instruments, on vocal organ motions beginning in late spring, during which we observed motions of vocal folds (i.e., cords), tongue, jaw, and related organs that are very useful for speech recognition and other purposes. These will be reviewed in a separate paper. Since late summer 1994, Lawrence Ng and I have worked to make many of the initial recognition ideas more rigorous and to investigate the applications of these new ideas to new speech recognition algorithms, to speech coding, and to speech synthesis. I introduce some of those ideas in section IV of this document, and we describe them more completely in the document following this one, UCRL-UR-120311. For the design and operation of micro-power radars and their application to body organ motions, the reader may contact Tom McEwan directly. The capability for using EM sensors (i.e., radar units) to measure body organ motions and positions has been available for decades. Impediments to their use appear to have been size, excessive power, lack of resolution, and lack of understanding of the value of organ motion measurements, especially as applied to speech related technologies. However, with the invention of very low power, portable systems as demonstrated by McEwan at LLNL researchers have begun to think differently about practical applications of such radars. In particular, his demonstrations of heart and lung motions have opened up many new areas of application for human and animal measurements.