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Distant speech recognition over microphone arrays is challenging, especially in multi source environments. In this paper, a non reference anchor array (NRA) framework for distant speech recognition is proposed. The NRA framework uses a non reference anchor array to capture the interfering speech sources, in addition to the primary array that captures the speech source of interest. The framework uses a linearly constrained minimum variance beam former (LC-MV) beam former such that the signal coming from the look direction is preserved while rejecting correlated interferences coming from the same direction as the source of interest. The performance of the proposed method discussed herein is evaluated by conducting experiments on clean speech acquisition from distant microphones and also on distant speech recognition on the TIMIT and MONC databases. Experimental results obtained from the proposed method indicate a reasonable improvement over correlation, subspace and standard minimum variance beam forming methods.
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Shukla, A., Nathwani, K., Hegde, R.M. (2012). An Adaptive Non Reference Anchor Array Framework for Distant Speech Recognition. In: Lin, W., et al. Advances in Multimedia Information Processing – PCM 2012. PCM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7674. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34778-8_20
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