Speech Recognition Concepts
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Speech Recognition Concepts

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What is a major challenge in speech recognition due to the variability of how people speak?

  • Limited vocabulary in speech systems
  • Consistent ambient acoustics
  • Lack of speaker identity verification
  • Word boundary hypothesis (correct)
  • What type of identification assumes all speakers are known to the system?

  • Closed set identification (correct)
  • Speaker verification
  • Open set identification
  • Speaker recognition
  • What layer in speech production is responsible for structuring the meaning of what is being said?

  • Acoustic Layer
  • Pragmatic Layer
  • Prosodic Layer
  • Semantic Layer (correct)
  • Which characteristic has the least impact on speech recognition accuracy?

    <p>Speaker personality traits</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the objective of extracting information from speech?

    <p>Automatically recognize spoken words</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does speaker verification entail?

    <p>Accepting or rejecting an identity claim</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is a reason why large vocabularies can complicate speech recognition?

    <p>Increased potential for word ambiguity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the acoustic layer in speech processing primarily deal with?

    <p>Sound waves and phonetic details</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of the enrolment phase in a speaker verification system?

    <p>To create voiceprints for each speaker</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which factors can impact the verification performance of speaker verification systems?

    <p>Channel and microphone characteristics</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In text-dependent recognition systems, what is a key advantage?

    <p>Improved performance due to known spoken text</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of recognition system does not know the text spoken by the user?

    <p>Text-independent recognition</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following best describes a potential drawback of text-independent recognition?

    <p>It may have lower accuracy due to variability in speech</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What role does speech duration play in speaker verification systems?

    <p>It influences the extraction of features for verification</p> Signup and view all the answers

    During which phase is a verification decision made?

    <p>Verification phase</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How can prompting in speaker verification reduce risks?

    <p>By minimizing potential impostor misuse of recordings</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Speech Recognition

    • Speech Recognition (SR) or Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is the process of converting spoken language into text
    • It is a challenging task due to:
      • Word boundaries are hard to identify due to continuity, variability, and disfluencies in speakers
      • Speaking rate variability
      • Large vocabularies in all languages
      • Variability in ambient acoustics, channel characteristics, microphone characteristics, and background noise

    Speech Production and Perception

    • Speech production and perception are complex processes involving multiple layers:
      • Pragmatic Layer: Communicative intent, understanding the context of speech
      • Semantic Layer: Meaning and interpretation of words
      • Syntactic Layer: Grammatical structure of sentences
      • Prosodic/Phonetic Layer: Intonation, rhythm, and stress patterns of speech
      • Acoustic Layer: The physical sound waves produced by speech

    Extracting Information from Speech

    • The goal of speech recognition is to automatically extract information from speech signals
    • This involves:
      • Converting speech signals into words
      • Identifying the speaker

    Speaker Identification

    • Determine the speaker's identity from a set of known voices
    • User does not claim their identity
      • Closed set identification: All speakers are known to the system
      • Open set identification: Possibility that the speaker is not known to the system

    Speaker Verification

    • User claims their identity
    • The system verifies the claimed identity
    • Two phases:
      • Enrolment Phase: System collects and stores voice samples (voiceprints) of each speaker
      • Verification Phase: The system compares the speaker’s speech to the stored voiceprints to verify their identity

    Verification Performance

    • Various factors affect speaker verification performance:
      • Speech quality: Channel and microphone characteristics, noise level, variability between enrolment and verification speech
      • Speech modality: Fixed or user-selected phrases (free text)
      • Speech duration: Duration and number of sessions of enrolment and verification speech
      • Speaker population: Size of the population

    Speech Modalities

    • Applications dictate different speech modalities:
      • Text-dependent recognition: The system knows the text spoken by the person, useful for controlled environments
      • Text-independent recognition: The system does not know the text beforehand, good for applications with more flexibility and less control over user input

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    This quiz explores the intricacies of Speech Recognition (SR) and the processes involved in speech production and perception. It covers challenges in converting spoken language to text, as well as the different layers that contribute to how we understand speech. Test your knowledge on the key concepts and technical aspects of SR.

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