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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2001
Shingo Kiuchi, Iwaki, JP;
Toshiaki Asano, Iwaki, JP;
Nozomu Saito, Iwaki, JP;
Alpine Electronics, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a conventional device for extracting voice features accurately without being influenced by noises, such as a voice recognition device, usually an input voice signal is processed first by a noise reduction system having the tap length N, and the result is FFT-processed by L-points, and then the power spectrum vector is calculated; accordingly, a one time operation requires N multiplications and (N−1) summations. The voice feature extraction device according to the invention receives a voice signal including noises from a microphone, which is processed by a window function operation unit, and thereafter FFT-processed by an FFT operation unit by L-points. A power calculation unit calculates a power spectrum vector of the input voice signal. However, a noise reduction system determines in advance a filter coefficient of this system and processes the coefficient to calculate a noise reduction coefficient, and the power spectrum vector is processed by this noise reduction system. Thereby, the voice feature extraction device of the invention reduces the processing volume to 1/(4N−2) in comparison to the conventional device, lightens the processing load of the processing unit, and increases the processing speed.