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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2013
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Universidate DO Porto, Oporto, PT;
Inesc Porto, Oporto, JP;
João Lobato Oliveira, Oporto, PT;
Gökhan Ince, Wako, JP;
Keisuke Nakamura, Wako, JP;
Kazuhiro Nakadai, Wako, JP;
Hiroshi Okuno, Wako, JP;
Luis Paulo Reis, Oporto, PT;
Fabien Gouyon, Oporto, PT;
Abstract
A sound processing device includes a separation unit configured to separate at least a music signal and a speech signal from a recorded audio signal, a noise suppression unit, a music feature value estimation unit, a speech recognition unit, a noise-processing confidence calculation unit, a music feature value estimation confidence calculation unit, a speech recognition confidence calculation unit, and a control unit configured to calculate at least one behavioral decision function of a speech behavioral decision function associated with speech and a music behavioral decision function associated with music based on a noise-processing confidence value, a music feature value estimation confidence value, and a speech recognition confidence value and to determine behavior corresponding to the calculated behavioral decision function.