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A statistical model for robust integration of narrowband cues in speech

✍ Scribed by Lawrence K. Saul; Mazin G. Rahim; Jont B. Allen

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
363 KB
Volume
15
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-2308

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✦ Synopsis

We investigate a statistical model for integrating narrowband cues in speech. The model is inspired by two ideas in human speech perception: (i) Fletcher's hypothesis (1953) that independent detectors, working in narrow frequency bands, account for the robustness of auditory strategies, and (ii) Miller and Nicely's analysis (1955) that perceptual confusions in noisy bandlimited speech are correlated with phonetic features. We apply the model to detecting the phonetic feature [+/-sonorant] that distinguishes vowels, approximants, and nasals (sonorants) from stops, fricatives, and affricates (obstruents). The model is represented by a multilayer probabilistic network whose binary hidden variables indicate sonorant cues from different parts of the frequency spectrum. We derive the Expectation-Maximization algorithm for estimating the model's parameters and evaluate its performance on clean and corrupted speech.

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