Cepstral and linear prediction techniques for improving intelligibility and audibility of impaired speech英文文献资料.docVIP

J. Biomedical Science and Engineering, 2010, 3, 85-94 JBiSE doi:10.4236/jbise.2010.31013 Published Online January 2010 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jbise/). Cepstral and linear prediction techniques for improving intelligibility and audibility of impaired speech G. Ravindran , S. Shenbagadevi , V. Salai Selvam 1 2 3 1 2 3 Faculty of Information and Communication Engineering, College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India; Faculty of Information and Communication Engineering, College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India; Department of Electronics Communication Engineering, Sriram Engineering College, Perumalpattu, India. Email: vsalaiselvam@ Received 30 October 2009; revised 20 November 2009; accepted 25 November 2009. ABSTRACT with speech impairments are training programmes by speech therapists at home or at hospitals or at a combi- nation of these, sign language like Makaton and elec- tronic aids like text-to-speech conversion unit. Human speech becomes impaired i.e., unintelligible due to a variety of reasons that can be either neuro- logical or anatomical. The objective of the research was to improve the intelligibility and audibility of the impaired speech that resulted from a disabled human speech mechanism with impairment in the acoustic system-the supra-laryngeal vocal tract. For this pur- pose three methods are presented in this paper. Method 1 was to develop an inverse model of the speech degradation using the Cepstral technique. Method 2 was to replace the degraded vocal tract response by a normal vocal tract response using the Cepstral technique. Method 3 was to replace the de- graded vocal tract response by a normal vocal tract response using the Linear Prediction technique. 1.1. General Properties of Speech Though non-stationary the speech signal can be