Speech recognition apparatus and method

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2011-07-12

2011-07-12

Jackson, Jakieda R (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

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07979270

ABSTRACT:
Disclosed herein is a voice processing apparatus for recognizing an input voice on the basis of a prosody characteristic of said voice, said voice processing apparatus including: voice acquisition means for acquiring said input voice; acoustic analysis means for finding a relative pitch change on the basis of a frequency-direction difference between a first frequency characteristic seen at each frame time of said input voice acquired by said voice acquisition means and a second frequency characteristic determined in advance; and prosody recognition means for carrying out a prosody recognition process on the basis of said relative pitch change found by said acoustic analysis means in order to produce a result of said prosody recognition process.

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