Unvoiced Speech Recognition Using Tissue-Conductive Acoustic Sensor

We present the use of stethoscope and silicon NAM (nonaudible murmur) microphones in automatic speech recognition. NAM microphones are special acoustic sensors, which are attached behind the talker's ear and can capture not only normal (audible) speech, but also very quietly uttered speech (non...

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Main Authors: Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, Tomomi Kaino, Panikos Heracleous
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2007-01-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/94068