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Using cepstral coefficients for Inhalation pause detection in spontaneous speech

Sjöström, Anders LU ; Frid, Johan LU orcid and Horne, Merle LU orcid (2005) SPECOM 2005 1. p.143-146
Abstract
A method for recognizing inhalations in spontaneous speech is presented. It is similar to the template matching technique; a distance measure is calculated between a reference sound and an equally long portion of the same sound being tracked. A feature representation consisting of the standard Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC), obtained by performing a discrete Cosine Transform of the mel-scaled filterbank spectrum is used. MFCC's are calculated every 5 ms. The comparison is then done by computing the euclidian distance between the cepstral coefficients of each frame of the two sounds. A low distance value means that the two compared inhalations are likely to be similar. The method can detect inhalations in both male and female... (More)
A method for recognizing inhalations in spontaneous speech is presented. It is similar to the template matching technique; a distance measure is calculated between a reference sound and an equally long portion of the same sound being tracked. A feature representation consisting of the standard Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC), obtained by performing a discrete Cosine Transform of the mel-scaled filterbank spectrum is used. MFCC's are calculated every 5 ms. The comparison is then done by computing the euclidian distance between the cepstral coefficients of each frame of the two sounds. A low distance value means that the two compared inhalations are likely to be similar. The method can detect inhalations in both male and female spontaneous speech. The method is most suited for signals with low noise and high average intensity (studio recording) but can also be used on noisier recordings with lower average intensity, albeit with poorer results. (Less)
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breathing pauses, inhalations, inhalation pause, cepstral coefficient, pause, spontaneous speech
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Proceedings of SPECOM 2005
editor
Kokkinakis, G. ; Fakotakis, N. ; Dermatas, E. and Potapova, R.
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1
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143 - 146
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University of Patras
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SPECOM 2005
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Patras, Greece
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0001-01-02
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5-7452-0110-x
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The role of function words in spontaneous speech processing
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English
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The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Linguistics and Phonetics (015010003), Structural Mechanics (011032000)
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  abstract     = {{A method for recognizing inhalations in spontaneous speech is presented. It is similar to the template matching technique; a distance measure is calculated between a reference sound and an equally long portion of the same sound being tracked. A feature representation consisting of the standard Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC), obtained by performing a discrete Cosine Transform of the mel-scaled filterbank spectrum is used. MFCC's are calculated every 5 ms. The comparison is then done by computing the euclidian distance between the cepstral coefficients of each frame of the two sounds. A low distance value means that the two compared inhalations are likely to be similar. The method can detect inhalations in both male and female spontaneous speech. The method is most suited for signals with low noise and high average intensity (studio recording) but can also be used on noisier recordings with lower average intensity, albeit with poorer results.}},
  author       = {{Sjöström, Anders and Frid, Johan and Horne, Merle}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings of SPECOM 2005}},
  editor       = {{Kokkinakis, G. and Fakotakis, N. and Dermatas, E. and Potapova, R.}},
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  keywords     = {{breathing pauses; inhalations; inhalation pause; cepstral coefficient; pause; spontaneous speech}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{143--146}},
  publisher    = {{University of Patras}},
  title        = {{Using cepstral coefficients for Inhalation pause detection in spontaneous speech}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/5910162/625482.pdf}},
  volume       = {{1}},
  year         = {{2005}},
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