Noise Reduction in Voice Controlled Logistic Systems

Abstract:

The most comfortable way of human communication is speech, which is a possible channel of human-machine interface as well. Moreover, a voice driven system can be controlled with busy hands. Performance of a speech recognition system is highly decayed by presence of noise. Logistic systems typically work in noisy environment, so noise reduction is crucial in industrial speech processing systems. Traditional noise reduction procedures (e.g. Wiener and Kalman filters) are effective on stationary or Gaussian noise. The noise of a real workplace can be captured by an additional microphone: The voice microphone takes both speech and noise, while the noise mike takes only the noise signal. Because of the phase shift of the two signals, simple subtraction in time domain is ineffective. In this paper, we discuss a spectral representation modeling the noise and voice signals. A frequency spectrum based noise cancellation method is proposed and verified in real industrial environment.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 309)
• Pages: 260-267
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.309.260
• Online since: February 2013
• Authors: Laszlo Czap, Judit Pinter
• Keywords: Multi-Microphone Noise Reduction, Voice Controlled Logistic Systems

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