Toshio Yokoyama

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2004
—ORCID · none

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1Systems, architecture and hardware · 1

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Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Speech recognition and synthesis · 100%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Natural language and speech › Speech recognition and synthesis › speech separation › computational auditory scene analysis
robot audition
0.012004
Improvement of Robot Audition by Interfacing Sound Source Separation and Automatic Speech Recognition with Missing Feature Theory · ICRA 2004
Natural language and speech › Speech recognition and synthesis
sound source separation
0.012004
Improvement of Robot Audition by Interfacing Sound Source Separation and Automatic Speech Recognition with Missing Feature Theory · ICRA 2004
Natural language and speech › Speech recognition and synthesis
automatic speech recognition
0.012004
Improvement of Robot Audition by Interfacing Sound Source Separation and Automatic Speech Recognition with Missing Feature Theory · ICRA 2004
Natural language and speech › Speech recognition and synthesis › automatic speech recognition › robust speech recognition
missing feature theory
0.012004
Improvement of Robot Audition by Interfacing Sound Source Separation and Automatic Speech Recognition with Missing Feature Theory · ICRA 2004

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

scattering theory · 0.0missing feature masking · 0.0active direction-pass filter · 0.0
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2004 Improvement of Robot Audition by Interfacing Sound Source Separation and Automatic Speech Recognition with Missing Feature Theory
abstract
We have been developed robot audition system using the active direction-pass filter (ADPF) with the Scattering Theory, and demonstrated that the humanoid SIG could separate and recognize three simultaneous speeches originating from different directions. This is the first result that a robot can listen to several things simultaneously. However, its general applicability to other robots is not yet confirmed. Since automatic speech recognition (ASR) requires direction- and speaker-dependent acoustic models, it is difficult to adapt various kinds of environments. In addition ASR with lots of acoustic models causes slow processing. In this paper, these three problems are resolved. First, we confirmed the generality of the ADPF by applying it to two humanoids, SIG2 and Replie, under different environments. Next, we present the new interface between ADPF and ASR based on the Missing Feature Theory, which masks broken features of separated sound to make them unavailable to ASR. This new interface improved the recognition performance of three simultaneous speeches up to about 90%. Finally, since the ASR uses only a single acoustic model that is direction- and speaker-independent and created under clean environments, the processing of the whole system was made very light and fast.
Shun'ichi Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hiroshi Tsujino, Toshio Yokoyama, Hiroshi G. Okuno
ICRA4