Voice identification method and apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9607619-B2
Application number	US-201314100822-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 9, 2013
Priority date	Jan 24, 2013
Publication date	Mar 28, 2017
Grant date	Mar 28, 2017

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a voice identification method, including: obtaining voice data; obtaining a first confidence value according to the voice data; obtaining a noise scenario according to the voice data; obtaining a second confidence value corresponding to the noise scenario according to the first confidence value; and if the second confidence value is greater than or equal to a pre-stored confidence threshold, processing the voice data. An apparatus is also provided. The method and apparatus that flexibly adjust the confidence value according to the noise scenario greatly improve a voice identification rate under a noise environment.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A mobile terminal comprising:
a microphone configured to obtain voice data;
a non-transitory medium configured to store pre-established noise type models; and
one or more processors configured to:
determine a first confidence value in response to the voice data, the first confidence value being designated to be used for validating speech recognition processing result of the voice data;
obtain a result value for each of the pre-established noise type models by inputting a frequency cepstrum coefficient of a noise in the voice data to each one of the pre-established noise type models;
select a first pre-established noise type model which has a maximum result value for the voice data;
determine a noise scenario associated with the first pre-established noise type model, wherein the noise scenario comprises a noise type, a signal-to-noise ratio and a noise level;
determine an adjusting value based on the noise scenario;
determine a second confidence value by adjusting the first confidence value based on the determined adjusting value, the second confidence value being designated to be used for validating speech recognition processing result of the voice data; and
perform an operation in accordance with the speech recognition processing result of the voice data in a case that the second confidence value being greater than or equal to a confidence threshold without considering whether the first confidence value being greater than or equal to the confidence threshold;

wherein the adjusting value is between 15 and 5 when the noise type is an on-board environment, when the noise level is smaller than −30 dB and when the signal-to-noise ratio is smaller than 10 dB; and
wherein the adjusting value is between 10 and 3 when the noise type is an on-board environment, when the noise level is greater than −30 dB and smaller than −40 dB and when the signal-to-noise ratio is greater than 10 dB and smaller than 20 dB.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the pre-established noise type mode is established by:
obtaining noise data;
obtaining a frequency cepstrum coefficient of the noise data; and
processing the frequency cepstrum coefficient of the noise data according to an Expectation-maximization algorithm.

3. The mobile terminal according to claim 2 , wherein the pre-established noise type mode is a Gaussian mixture model.

4. The mobile terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the noise type corresponds to the first pre-established noise type model, and the one or more processors, further configured to:
obtain a feature parameter of the voice data;
perform voice activity detection based on the feature parameter of the voice data; and
obtain the noise magnitude based on a result of the voice activity detection.

5. The mobile terminal according to claim 1 , the one or more processors, further configured to:
prompt a user when the second confidence value is smaller than the confidence threshold.

6. A voice identification method performed by a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
obtaining voice data;
determining a first confidence value in response to the voice data, the first confidence value being designated to be used for validating speech recognition processing result of the voice data;
obtaining a result value for each of the pre-established noise type models by inputting a frequency cepstrum coefficient of a noise in the voice data to each one of the pre-established noise type models;
selecting a first pre-established noise type model which has a maximum result value for the voice data;
determining a noise scenario associated with the first pre-established noise type model wherein the noise scenario comprises a noise type, a signal-to-noise ratio and a noise level;
determining an adjusting value based on the noise scenario;
determining a second confidence value by adjusting the first confidence value based on the determined adjusting value, the second confidence value being designated to be used for validating speech recognition processing result of the voice data; and
performing an operation in accordance with the speech recognition processing result of the voice data in a case that the second confidence value being greater than or equal to a confidence threshold without considering whether the first confidence value being greater than or equal to the confidence threshold;
wherein the adjusting value is between 15 and 5 when the noise type is an on-board environment, when the noise level is smaller than −30 dB and when the signal-to-noise ratio is smaller than 10 dB,
wherein the adjusting value is between 10 and 3 when the noise type is an on-board environment, when the noise level is greater than −30 dB and smaller than −40 dB and when the signal-to-noise ratio is greater than 10 dB and smaller than 20 dB.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the pre-established noise type mode is established by:
obtaining noise data;
obtaining a frequency cepstrum coefficient of the noise data; and
processing the frequency cepstrum coefficient of the noise data according to an Expectation-maximization algorithm.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the pre-established noise type mode is a Gaussian mixture model.

9. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the noise type corresponds to the first pre-established noise type model, and the method further comprising:
obtaining a feature parameter of the voice data;
performing voice activity detection based on the feature parameter of the voice data; and
obtaining a noise magnitude based on a result of the voice activity detection.

10. The method according to claim 6 , further comprising:
prompting a user when the second confidence value is smaller than the confidence threshold.

Assignees

• Huawei Device Co Ltd

Inventors

• Jiang Hongrui
• Wang Xiyong
• Liang Junbin
• Zheng Weijun
• Zhou Junyang

Classifications

• G10L17/20 Primary

  Pattern transformations or operations aimed at increasing system robustness, e.g. against channel noise or different working conditions · CPC title

• G10L17/12 Primary

  Score normalisation · CPC title