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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 1987
Filed:
Apr. 13, 1983
Periagaram K Rajasekaran, Richardson, TX (US);
George R Doddington, Richardson, TX (US);
Thomas B Schalk, Dallas, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
Speaker-independent word recognition is performed, based on a small acoustically distinct vocabulary, with minimal hardware requirements. After a simple preconditioning filter, the zero crossing intervals of the input speech are measured and sorted by duration, to provide a rough measure of the frequency distribution within each input frame. The distribution of zero crossing intervals is transformed into a binary feature vector, which is compared with each reference template using a modified Hamming distance measure. A dynamic time warping algorithm is used to permit recognition of various speaker rates, and to economize on the reference template storage requirements. A mask vector with each reference vector on a template is used to ignore insignificant (or speaker-dependent) features of the words detected.