Normalization of speech signals

Details Normalization of speech signals Normalization of speech signals

1984-10-19

1989-03-28

Kemeny, Emanuel S.

Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices

One-way audio signal program distribution

Public address system

381 43, G10L 500

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048171581

ABSTRACT:
A method and a system are disclosed for normalizing a speech signal prior to a speech recognition process. In a preparatory procedure, a sample interval of speech is separated into thirty-one frequency bands and an amplitude histogram is generated for each band. From these histograms, the 5% percentile amplitude value P(05) and the 95% percentile amplitude value P(95) are extracted for each band and these values are stored for later reference. For actual normalization, the current speech signal is also divided into the same frequency band as in the preparatory procedure, and consecutive input amplitude values A(in) of each frequency band are modified, using the percentile values of the respective band, to obtain output values according to ##EQU1## The essential effect of this normalizing treatment is that the resulting long-term spectrum is given by the P(95) values and the spectrum of silence is given by the P(05) values. After normalization, all speech has the same silence spectrum and long-term spectrum.

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