Sound's Direction Detection and Speech Recognition System for Humanoid Active Audition

  • Kim, Hyun-Don (Department of Electrical Engineering , Korea University) ;
  • Choi, Jong-Suk (Korea Institute of Science and Technology , Intelligent Robotics Research Center) ;
  • Lee, Chang-Hoon (Department of Information Communication Engineering, Paichai University) ;
  • Park, Gwi-Tea (Department of Electrical Engineering , Korea University) ;
  • Kim, Mun-Sang (Korea Institute of Science and Technology , Intelligent Robotics Research Center)
  • Published : 2003.10.22

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a humanoid active audition system which detects the direction of sound and performs speech recognition using just three microphones. Compared with previous researches, this system which has simpler algorithm, fewer microphones and better amplifier shows better performance. In order to verify our system's performance, we install the proposed active audition system to the home service robot, called Hombot II, which has been developed at the KIST (Korea Institute of Science and Technology), thus we confirm excellent performance by experimental results

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