• DocumentCode
    2471763
  • Title

    Enhanced human-computer speech interface using wavelet computing

  • Author

    Ayat, Saeed

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. Technol., Payame Noor Univ., Najafabad
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    14-16 July 2008
  • Firstpage
    37
  • Lastpage
    40
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we design an enhanced human-computer speech interface by wavelet transform. By using a new thresholding algorithm and shrink function, we improve the efficiency of the speech interface. This shrink function tries to decrease sharp time-frequency spectrogram discontinuities by attenuating the wavelet coefficients instead of setting them to zero. This attenuation will be done regarding to the wavelet coefficients distance from the threshold. By applying a lot of tests we evaluated our system for three different languages. The results confirmed the improvement in performances and achievements of our system.
  • Keywords
    human computer interaction; natural language interfaces; time-frequency analysis; enhanced human-computer speech interface; shrink function; thresholding algorithm; time-frequency spectrogram discontinuities; wavelet coefficients; wavelet computing; Computer interfaces; Discrete wavelet transforms; Frequency; Low-frequency noise; Noise reduction; Speech coding; Speech enhancement; Virtual environment; Wavelet coefficients; Wavelet transforms; shrink function; speech enhancement; threshold selection; waveshrink;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems, 2008. VECIMS 2008. IEEE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Istanbul
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1927-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1928-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/VECIMS.2008.4592749
  • Filename
    4592749