VOICE SITUATION DATA CREATING DEVICE, VOICE SITUATION VISUALIZING DEVICE, VOICE SITUATION DATA EDITING DEVICE, VOICE DATA REPRODUCING DEVICE, AND VOICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20090198495A1
• Filed: 05/21/2007
• Published: 08/06/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Inventors: Hata, Toshiyuki
• Application Number:
  US12/302,431
• Publication Number:
  US 20090198495A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/246
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/04 Segmentation; Word boundary detection
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/00 Speaker identification or verification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2021/02166 Microphone arrays; Beamforming
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/56 Arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities video conference systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/565 relating to time schedule aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 27/00 Public address systems circuits for preventing acoustic reaction H04R3/02; circuits for distributing signals to loudspeakers H04R3/12; monitoring or testing arrangements for public address systems H04R29/007; amplifiers H03F
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 3/005 for combining the signals of two or more microphones specially adapted for hearing aids H04R25/407

Abstract

A voice situation data creating device for providing the user with data with a good convenience for the user when the user uses voice data collected from sound sources and recorded with time. A direction/talker identifying section (3) of a control unit (1) observes a variation of direction data acquired from voice communication data and sets single-direction data and combination direction data on a combination of directions in talker identification data if no variation of the direction data indicating a single direction or direction data indicating directions over a predetermined time occurs. If any variation of the direction data occurs within a predetermined time, the direction/talker identifying section (3) reads voice feature value data Sc from a talker'"'"'s voice DB (53), identifies the talker by comparing the voice feature value data Sc with the voice feature value analyzed by a voice data analyzing section (2), sets talker name data in the talker identification data if the talker is identified, and sets direction undetection data in the talker identification data if the talker is not identified. A voice situation data creating section (4) creates voice situation data according to the variation with time of the talker identification data.

Claims

1. A voice situation data creating device comprising:

data acquisition means for acquiring in time series voice data and direction data that represents a direction of arrival of the voice data;

a talker'"'"'s voice feature database storing voice feature values of respective talkers;

direction/talker identifying means for setting the direction data, which is single-direction data, in talker identification data when the acquired direction data indicates a single direction and remains unchanged for a predetermined time period, said direction/talker identifying means being for setting the direction data, which is combination direction data, in the talker identification data when the direction data indicates a same combination of plural directions and remains unchanged for a predetermined time period,

said direction/talker identifying means being for extracting a voice feature value from the voice data and comparing the extracted voice feature value with the voice feature values to thereby perform talker identification when the talker identification data is neither the single-direction data nor the combination direction data and for setting, if a talker is identified, talker name data corresponding to the identified talker in the talker identification data and for setting, if a talker is not identified, direction undetection data in the talker identification data;

voice situation data creating means for creating voice situation data by analyzing a time distribution of a result of determination on the talker identification data; and

storage means for storing the voice data and the voice situation data.

2. The voice situation data creating device according to claim 1, wherein said direction/talker identifying means renews, as needed, the talker'"'"'s voice feature database based on a voice feature value obtained from a talker'"'"'s voice which is input during communication.

3. A voice situation visualizing device comprising:

the voice situation data creating device as set forth in claim 1; and

display means for graphically representing the time distribution of the voice data in time series on a talker basis based on the voice situation data and for displaying the graphically represented time distribution.

4. A voice situation data editing device comprising:

the voice situation visualizing device as set forth in claim 3;

operation acceptance means for accepting an operation input for editing the voice situation data; and

data edit means for analyzing a content of edit accepted by said operation acceptance means and editing the voice situation data.

5. A voice data reproducing device comprising:

the voice situation data editing device as set forth in claim 4; and

reproducing means for selecting and reproducing talker voice data selected by said operation acceptance means from all voice data.

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