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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Osamu Ichikawa, Yokohama, JP;
Takashi Fukuda, Yokohama, JP;
Gakuto Kurata, Bunkyo-ku, JP;
Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for processing a speech signal, includes: identifying speech segments in an input speech signal; calculating an upper variance and a lower variance, the upper variance being a variance of upper spectra larger than a criteria among speech spectra corresponding to frames in the speech segments, the lower variance being a variance of lower spectra smaller than a criteria among the speech spectra corresponding to the frames in the speech segments; determining whether the input speech signal is a special input speech signal using a difference between the upper variance and the lower variance; and performing speech recognition of the input speech signal which has been determined to be the special input speech signal, using a special acoustic model for the special input speech signal.