A Wearable Silent Speech Interface based on Magnetic Sensors with Motion-Artefact Removal

Lam A. Cheah, James M. Gilbert, Jose A. Gonzalez, Phil D. Green, Stephen R. Ell, Roger K. Moore, Ed Holdsworth

2018

Abstract

For a silent speech interface (SSI) to be truly practical, it has to be able to tolerate motion artefacts generated by the user while engaging in normal activities of everyday living. This paper presents a wearable speech restoration system based on magnetic sensors with an integrated background cancellation technique to eliminate the effect of motion-induced interference. The background cancellation technique is assessed when the user makes no intentional movement, when they performs a set of defined head movements and when they make more natural, conversational head movements. The performance is measured for the TIDigits corpus in terms of whole word recognition rate using a Hidden Markov Model and through Mel Cepstral Distortion for a Direct Synthesis of speech using Deep Neural Networks. The results indicate the robustness of the sensing system with background cancellation against the undesirable motion-induced artefacts.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Cheah L., Gilbert J., Gonzalez J., Green P., R. Ell S., K. Moore R. and Holdsworth E. (2018). A Wearable Silent Speech Interface based on Magnetic Sensors with Motion-Artefact Removal. In Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2018) - Volume 1: BIODEVICES; ISBN 978-989-758-277-6, SciTePress, pages 56-62. DOI: 10.5220/0006573200560062

in Bibtex Style

@conference{biodevices18,
author={Lam A. Cheah and James M. Gilbert and Jose A. Gonzalez and Phil D. Green and Stephen R. Ell and Roger K. Moore and Ed Holdsworth},
title={A Wearable Silent Speech Interface based on Magnetic Sensors with Motion-Artefact Removal},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2018) - Volume 1: BIODEVICES},
year={2018},
pages={56-62},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006573200560062},
isbn={978-989-758-277-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2018) - Volume 1: BIODEVICES
TI - A Wearable Silent Speech Interface based on Magnetic Sensors with Motion-Artefact Removal
SN - 978-989-758-277-6
AU - Cheah L.
AU - Gilbert J.
AU - Gonzalez J.
AU - Green P.
AU - R. Ell S.
AU - K. Moore R.
AU - Holdsworth E.
PY - 2018
SP - 56
EP - 62
DO - 10.5220/0006573200560062
PB - SciTePress