Frame erasure concealment technique for a bitstream-based feature extractor

• US 7,110,947 B2
• Filed: 12/05/2000
• Issued: 09/19/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc. (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Cox, Richard Vandervoort, Kim, Hong Kook
• Primary Examiner(s): Chawan, Vijay
• Assistant Examiner(s): Opsasnick, Michael N.
• Application Number:
  US09/730,011
• Publication Number:
  US 20020046021A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,114 Days
• Field of Search: 704/256, 704/277, 704/243, 704/236
• US Class Current: 704/236
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/02 Feature extraction for speech recognition; Selection of recognition unit
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/005 Correction of errors induced by the transmission channel, if related to the coding algorithm

Abstract

A frame erasure concealment technique for a bitstream-based feature extractor in a speech recognition system particularly suited for use in a wireless communication system operates to “delete” each frame in which an erasure is declared. The deletions thus reduce the length of the observation sequence, but have been found to provide for sufficient speech recognition based on both single word and “string” tests of the deletion technique.

Claims

1. A method of generating speech coding parameters of an erased frame in a bitstream-based front end of a speech recognition system, the method comprising the steps of:

detecting an erased frame;

measuring the Euclidean distance between the line spectrum pairs (LSPs) of adjacent frames (n−

1) and n;

defining a steady-state threshold T associated with an acceptable difference between the LSPs of the adjacent frames;

deleting the LSPs of the n^th frame in an observation sequence if the measured distance is less than or equal to T; and

generating the speech coding parameters with a standard hidden Markov model process.

2. The method as defined in claim 1 wherein in detecting a frame erasure, an erasure is declared when the bits most sensitive to error within a frame are determined to be in error.

3. The method as defined in claim 2 wherein the bits most sensitive to error in a frame in a bitstream-based speech recognition system include the line spectrum pair information bits and the gain information bits.