Processing of speech signals using a microphone array for intelligent robots

Abstract

For intelligent robots to interact with people, an efficient human-robot communication interface is very important (e.g. voice command). However, recognizing voice command or speech represents only part of speech communication. The physics of speech signals includes other information, such as speaker direction. Secondly, a basic element of processing the speech signal is recognition at the acoustic level. However, the performance of recognition depends greatly on the reception. In a noisy environment, the success rate can be very poor. As a result, prior to speech recognition, it is important to process the speech signals to extract the needed content while rejecting others (such as background noise). This paper presents a speech purification system for robots to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of reception and an algorithm with a multidirection calibration beamformer.