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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An utterance section detection device which is capable of detecting an utterance section with high accuracy on the basis of whether or not an end of a speech section is an end of utterance. The utterance section detection device includes a speech/non-speech determination unit configured to perform speech/non-speech determination which is determination as to whether a certain frame of an acoustic signal is speech or non-speech, an utterance end determination unit configured to perform utterance end determination which is determination as to whether or not an end of a speech section is an end of utterance for each speech section which is a section determined as speech as a result of the speech/non-speech determination, a non-speech section duration threshold determination unit configured to determine a threshold regarding a duration of a non-speech section on the basis of a result of the utterance end determination, and an utterance section detection unit configured to detect an utterance section by comparing a duration of a non-speech section following the speech section with the corresponding threshold.