Non-speech section detecting method and non-speech section detecting device

• US 8,798,991 B2
• Filed: 11/13/2012
• Issued: 08/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Washio, Nobuyuki, Hayakawa, Shoji
• Primary Examiner(s): YEN, ERIC L
• Application Number:
  US13/675,317
• Publication Number:
  US 20130073281A1
• Time in Patent Office: 630 Days
• Field of Search: 704/208, 704/210, 704/248
• US Class Current: 704/208
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2025/783 based on threshold decision
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/78 Detection of presence or absence of voice signals switching of direction of transmission by voice frequency in two-way loud-speaking telephone systems H04M9/10

Abstract

A non-speech section detecting device generating a plurality of frames having a given time length on the basis of sound data obtained by sampling sound, and detecting a non-speech section having a frame not containing voice data based on speech uttered by a person, the device including: a calculating part calculating a bias of a spectrum obtained by converting sound data of each frame into components on a frequency axis; a judging part judging whether the bias is greater than or equal to a given threshold or alternatively smaller than or equal to a given threshold; a counting part counting the number of consecutive frames judged as having a bias greater than or equal to the threshold or alternatively smaller than or equal to the threshold; a count judging part judging whether the obtained number of consecutive frames is greater than or equal to a given value.

Claims

1. A non-speech section detecting device generating a plurality of frames having a given time length on the basis of sound data obtained by sampling sound, and detecting a non-speech section having a frame not including voice data based on speech uttered by a person, the device comprising:

a first calculating part configured to calculate, for each frame of the plurality of frames, a value, wherein the value is one of a power of sound data, a pitch of sound data, or a bias of a spectrum obtained by converting sound data into components on a frequency axis;

a second calculating part configured to calculate, for a pair of consecutive frames, a variation between the calculated values calculated for the frames in the pair and configured to judge whether the calculated variation is smaller than or equal to a given threshold, and performing, for each pair of consecutive frames in the plurality of frames, the calculating of a variation and the judging;

a counting part configured to count a number of variations judged as smaller than or equal to the threshold;

a count judging part configured to judge whether the counted number is greater than or equal to a given value; and

a detecting part configured to detect, when the counted number is judged as greater than or equal to the given value, a section of the sound data as a non-speech section.

2. The non-speech section detecting device according to claim 1, further comprising

a second judging part configured to judge whether any of the variations calculated by the second calculating part exceeds a second threshold greater than said given threshold, wherein

when the second judging part judges any of the variations as exceeding the second threshold, the detecting part excludes a sound data section including the frames corresponding to a variation which exceeds the second threshold, from being detected as a non-speech section.

3. The non-speech section detecting device according to claim 2, further comprising:

a satisfaction counting part configured to count the number of variations which exceed the second threshold;

a given number judging part configured to judge whether the number of variations counted in the satisfaction counting part is smaller than or equal to a third threshold; and

a second detecting part configured to detect, in a case that the number of variations counted in the satisfaction counting part is judged to be less than the third threshold, a section of the sound data is designated as a non-speech section.

4. The non-speech section detecting device according to claim 2, further comprising

a third calculating part configured to calculate a maximum value of at least two of the calculated variations, wherein

the judging part treats the maximum value calculated by the third calculating part, as a variation of the frames corresponding to the at least two calculated variations.

5. A non-speech section detecting method of generating a plurality of frames having a given time length on the basis of sound data obtained by sampling sound, and detecting a non-speech section having a frame not including voice data based on speech uttered by a person, the method comprising:

calculating, for each frame of the plurality of frames, a value, wherein the value is one of a power of sound data, or a pitch of sound data, or a bias of a spectrum obtained by converting sound data into components on a frequency axis, using a processor;

calculating, for a pair of consecutive frames, a variation between the calculated values calculated for the frames in the pair and judging whether the calculated variation is smaller than or equal to a given threshold, and performing, for each pair of consecutive frames in the plurality of frames, the calculating of a variation and the judging using the processor;

counting a number of variations judged as smaller than or equal to the threshold using the processor;

judging whether the counted number of variations is greater than or equal to a given value using the processor; and

detecting, when the counted number of variations is judged as greater than or equal to the given value, a section of the sound data as a non-speech section using the processor.