Abstract
A technique for improving the recognition accuracy of EMG-based speech recognition by applying existing speech recognition technologies is proposed. The authors have proposed an EMG-based speech recognition system that requires only mouth movements, voice need not be generated. A multi-stream HMM (Hidden Markov Model) and feature extraction technique are applied to EMG-based speech recognition. 3 channel facial EMG signals are collected from ten subjects when uttering 10 Japanese isolated digits. One channel corresponds to one stream. By examining various features, we found that the delta component of the static parameter leads to higher accuracy. Compared to equal stream weighting, the individual optimization of stream weights increased recognition accuracy by 4. 0% which corresponds to a 12.8% reduction in error rate. This result shows that multi-stream HMM is effective for the classification of EMG.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 4389-4392 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings |
| Volume | 26 VI |
| Publication status | Published - 2004 Dec 1 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Conference Proceedings - 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2004 - San Francisco, CA, United States Duration: 2004 Sept 1 → 2004 Sept 5 |
Keywords
- EMG
- Multi-stream HMM
- Speech recognition
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Signal Processing
- Biomedical Engineering
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Health Informatics