The acceptance of speech as a primary user-interface in vehicles depends on how well speech recognition can overcome challenging conditions including high levels of noise, echo and competing speech, in which accuracy is known to degrade. To mitigate this, an acoustic front-end using the QNX Acoustics for Voice software library preprocesses multichannel microphone data from the vehicle and provides a cleaned signal to the recognizer. We demonstrate how three components of the front-end: beamforming, acoustic echo cancellation and zone interference cancellation, lead to significant improvements in word error rates.
Authors:
Every, Mark; Li, Xueman
Affiliation:
BlackBerry QNX, Burnaby, BC, Canada
AES Conference:
2022 AES International Conference on Automotive Audio (June 2022)
Paper Number:
3
Publication Date:
June 8, 2022
Subject:
Automotive Audio
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