Simon listens PIC: 987058033 Grant Agree number: 231143 Project: ASTROMOBILE
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Content
1. Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 5
2. Signal processing ............................................................................................................................. 5
2.1. Microphone solutions ........................................................................................................................ 5
2.1.1. Using a wireless microphone system (direct communication) ................................................. 5
2.1.2. Using a simon client for mobile devices .................................................................................... 5
2.1.3. Using installed microphone network in the environment ........................................................ 6
2.2. Zones of signal processing: ................................................................................................................ 6
2.2.1. Call zone ..................................................................................................................................... 6
2.2.2. Communication zone ................................................................................................................. 6
2.2.3. Comfort zone ............................................................................................................................. 6
2.3. Microphone tests ............................................................................................................................... 7
2.3.1. Description:................................................................................................................................ 7
2.3.2. Environment .............................................................................................................................. 7
2.3.3. Test objects ................................................................................................................................ 7
2.3.4. Objectives: ............................................................................................................................... 10
2.3.5. Method: ................................................................................................................................... 10
2.3.6. Results: .................................................................................................................................... 10
2.3.7. Excluded Microphones: ........................................................................................................... 12
2.3.8. Usable Microphones for speech recognition: ......................................................................... 12
2.3.9. Selected microphones for the ASTROMOBILE project ............................................................ 12
3. Speech modelling .......................................................................................................................... 13
3.1. Preparation of the technical infrastructure ..................................................................................... 13
3.2. Investigation of speech models ....................................................................................................... 13
3.2.1. German .................................................................................................................................... 13
3.2.2. Italian ....................................................................................................................................... 14
3.2.3. English ...................................................................................................................................... 14
3.3. Speechmodeldesign ......................................................................................................................... 14
3.3.1. Parameter definition ............................................................................................................... 15
3.3.2. Speech recordings ................................................................................................................... 15
3.3.3. Model compilation .................................................................................................................. 15
3.4. Recording Italian speech data ......................................................................................................... 15
4. Development of dialogues ............................................................................................................. 16
4.1. Dialogue screenshots ....................................................................................................................... 17
4.1.1. Dialogue: To get up .................................................................................................................. 17
4.1.2. Dialogue: Breakfast .................................................................................................................. 18
