EP0335521B1 - Detektion für die Anwesenheit eines Sprachsignals - Google Patents

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EP0335521B1
EP0335521B1 EP89302422A EP89302422A EP0335521B1 EP 0335521 B1 EP0335521 B1 EP 0335521B1 EP 89302422 A EP89302422 A EP 89302422A EP 89302422 A EP89302422 A EP 89302422A EP 0335521 B1 EP0335521 B1 EP 0335521B1
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  • a voice activity detector is a device which is supplied with a signal with the object of detecting periods of speech, or periods containing only noise.
  • the present invention is not limited thereto, one application of particular interest for such detectors is in mobile radio telephone systems where the knowledge as to the presence or otherwise of speech can be used exploited by a speech coder to improve the efficient utilisation of radio spectrum, and where also the noise level (from a vehicle-mounted unit) is likely to be high.
  • voice activity detection is to locate a measure which differs appreciably between speech and non-speech periods.
  • apparatus which includes a speech coder
  • a number of parameters are readily available from one or other stage of the coder, and it is therefore desirable to economise on processing needed by utilising some such parameter.
  • the main noise sources occur in known defined areas of the frequency spectrum. For example, in a moving car much of the noise (eg, engine noise) is concentrated in the low frequency regions of the spectrum. Where such knowledge of the spectral position of noise is available, it is desirable to base the decision as to whether speech is present or absent upon measurements taken from that portion of the spectrum which contains relatively little noise. It would, of course, be possible in practice to pre-filter the signal before analysing to detect speech activity, but where the voice activity detector follows the output of a speech coder, prefiltering would distort the voice signal to be coded.
  • a voice activity detector which compares the input signal with predetermined noise characteristics, by filtering the input signal through a pair of manually balanced bandpass filters (employing analogue components) to form two frequency dependent energy segments.
  • This method is of limited usefulness for many reasons; firstly, such a crude arrangement ignores the fact that many types of noise could have an energy balance between the two bands similar to a speech signal, secondly, balancing the filters is laborious and requires a manual detection of noise periods for balancing, and thirdly, such a device is unable to adjust to changing noise or spectral changes in the environment (or communications channel).
  • European patent application published as EP-A-0127718 and US patent 4672669 describe a voice activity detection apparatus in which a first test is made on signal amplitude and a second test is based on analysis of changes in the short-term signal spectrum. Specifically, the spectral analysis is performed by comparing the autocorrelation of the signal with that of an earlier portion of the signal deemed to be speech-free.
  • a voice activity detection apparatus comprising:
  • the invention provides a method of detecting voice activity in a first, input, signal, comprising
  • a frame of n signal samples (s0, s1, s2, s3, s4 ... s n-1 ) will, when passed through a notional fourth order finite impulse response (FIR) digital filter of impulse response (1, h0, h1, h2, h3), result in a filtered signal (ignoring samples from previous frames)
  • s′ (s0), (s1 + h0s0), (s2 + h0s1 + h1s0), (s3 + h0s2 + h1s1 + h2s0), (s4 + h0s3 + h1s2 + h2s1 + h1s0), (s5 + h0s4 + h1s3 + h2s2 + h3s1), (s6 + h0s5 + h1s4 + h2s3 + h3s2), (s7 ...
  • FIR finite impulse response
  • the zero order autocorrelation coefficient is the sum of each term squared, which may be normalized i.e. divided by the total number of terms (for constant frame lengths it is easier to omit the division); that of the filtered signal is thus and this is therefore a measure of the power of the notional filtered signal s′ - in other words, of that part of the signal s which falls within the passband of the notional filter. Expanding, neglecting the first 4 terms,
  • R'0 can be obtained from a combination of the autocorrelation coefficients R i , weighted by the bracketed constants which determine the frequency band to which the value of R'0 is responsive.
  • the bracketed terms are the autocorrelation coefficients of the impulse response of the notional filter, so that the expression above may be simplified to where N is the filter order and H i are the (un-normalised) autocorrelation coefficients of the impulse response of the filter.
  • the effect on the signal autocorrelation coefficients of filtering a signal may be simulated by producing a weighted sum of the autocorrelation coefficients of the (unfiltered) signal, using the impulse response that the required filter would have had.
  • a relatively simple algorithm involving a small number of multiplication operations, may simulate the effect of a digital filter requiring typically a hundred times this number of multiplication operations.
  • This filtering operation may alternatively be viewed as a form of spectrum comparison, with the signal spectrum being matched against a reference spectrum (the inverse of the response of the notional filter). Since the notional filter in this application is selected so as to approximate the inverse of the noise spectrum, this operation may be viewed as a spectral comparison between speech and noise spectra, and the zeroth autocorrelation coefficient thus generated (i.e. the energy of the inverse filtered signal) as a measure of dissimilarity between the spectra.
  • the Itakura-Saito distortion measure is used in LPC to assess the match between the predictor filter and the input spectrum, and in one form is expressed as where A0 etc are the autocorrelation coefficients of the LPC parameter set.
  • the LPC coefficients are the taps of an FIR filter having the inverse spectral response of the input signal so that the LPC coefficient set is the impulse response of the inverse LPC filter, it will be apparent that the Itakura-Saito Distortion Measure is in fact merely a form of equation 1, wherein the filter response H is the inverse of the spectral shape of an all-pole model of the input signal.
  • a signal from a microphone is received at an input 1 and converted to digital samples s at a suitable sampling rate by an analogue to digital converter 2.
  • An LPC analysis unit 3 (in a known type of LPC coder) then derives, for successive frames of n (eg 160) samples, a set of N (eg 8 or 12) LPC filter coefficients L i which are transmitted to represent the input speech.
  • the speech signal s also enters a correlator unit 4 (normally part of the LPC coder 3 since the autocorrelation vector R i of the speech is also usually produced as a step in the LPC analysis although it will be appreciated that a separate correlator could be provided).
  • the correlator 4 produces the autocorrelation vector R i , including the zero order correlation coefficient R0 and at least 2 further autocorrelation coefficients R1, R2, R3. These are then supplied to a multiplier unit 5.
  • a second input 11 is connected to a second microphone located distant from the speaker so as to receive only background noise.
  • the input from this microphone is converted to a digital input sample train by AD convertor 12 and LPC analysed by a second LPC analyser 13.
  • the "noise" LPC coefficients produced from analyser 13 are passed to correlator unit 14, and the autocorrelation vector thus produced is multiplied term by term with the autocorrelation coefficients R i of the input signal from the speech microphone in multiplier 5 and the weighted coefficients thus produced are combined in adder 6 according to Equation 1, so as to apply a filter having the inverse shape of the noise spectrum from the noise-only microphone (which in practice is the same as the shape of the noise spectrum in the signal-plus-noise microphone) and thus filter out most of the noise.
  • the resulting measure M is thresholded by thresholder 7 to produce a logic output 8 indicating the presence or absence of speech; if M is high, speech is deemed to be present.
  • This embodiment does, however, require two microphones and two LPC analysers, which adds to the expense and complexity of the equipment necessary.
  • another embodiment uses a corresponding measure formed using the autocorrelations from the noise microphone 11 and the LPC coefficients from the main microphone 1, so that an extra autocorrelator rather than an LPC analyser is necessary.
  • a buffer 15 which stores a set of LPC coefficients (or the autocorrelation vector of the set) derived from the microphone input 1 in a period identified as being a "non speech" (ie noise only) period. These coefficients are then used to derive a measure using equation 1, which also of course corresponds to the Itakura-Saito Distortion Measure, except that a single stored frame of LPC coefficients corresponding to an approximation of the inverse noise spectrum is used, rather than the present frame of LPC coefficients.
  • the LPC coefficient vector L i output by analyser 3 is also routed to a correlator 14, which produces the autocorrelation vector of the LPC coefficient vector.
  • the buffer memory 15 is controlled by the speech/non-speech output of thresholder 7, in such a way that during "speech" frames the buffer retains the "noise” autocorrelation coefficients, but during "noise” frames a new set of LPC coefficients may be used to update the buffer, for example by a multiple switch 16, via which outputs of the correlator 14, carrying each autocorrelation coefficient, are connected to the buffer 15. It will be appreciated that correlator 14 could be positioned after buffer 15. Further, the speech/no-speech decision for coefficient update need not be from output 8, but could be (and preferably is) otherwise derived.
  • the LPC coefficients stored in the buffer are updated from time to time, so that the apparatus is thus capable of tracking changes in the noise spectrum. It will be appreciated that such updating of the buffer may be necessary only occasionally, or may occur only once at the start of operation of the detector, if (as is often the case) the noise spectrum is relatively stationary over time, but in a mobile radio environment frequent updating is preferred.
  • the system initially employs equation 1 with coefficient terms corresponding to a simple fixed high pass filter, and then subsequently starts to adapt by switching over to using "noise period" LPC coefficients. If, for some reason, speech detection fails, the system may return to using the simple high pass filter.
  • LPC analysis unit 13 is simply replaced by an adaptive filter (for example a transversal FIR or lattice filter), connected so as to whiten the noise input by modelling the inverse filter, and its coefficients are supplied as before to autocorrelator 14.
  • an adaptive filter for example a transversal FIR or lattice filter
  • LPC analysis means 3 is replaced by such an adaptive filter, and buffer means 15 is omitted, but switch 16 operates to prevent the adaptive filter from adapting its coefficients during speech periods.
  • the LPC coefficient vector is simply the impulse response of an FIR filter which has a response approximating the inverse spectral shape of the input signal.
  • the Itakura-Saito Distortion Measure between adjacent frames is formed, this is in fact equal to the power of the signal, as filtered by the LPC filter of the previous frame. So if spectra of adjacent frames differ little, a correspondingly small amount of the spectral power of a frame will escape filtering and the measure will be low.
  • a large interframe spectral difference produces a high Itakura-Saito Distortion Measure, so that the measure reflects the spectral similarity of adjacent frames.
  • the Itakura-Saito Distortion Measure between adjacent frames of a noisy signal containing intermittent speech is higher during periods of speech than periods of noise; the degree of variation (as illustrated by the standard deviation) is also higher, and less intermittently variable.
  • the standard deviation of the standard deviation of M is also a reliable measure; the effect of taking each standard deviation is essentially to smooth the measure.
  • the measured parameter used to decide whether speech is present is preferably the standard deviation of the Itakura-Saito Distortion Measure, but other measures of variance and other spectral distortion measures (based for example on FFT analysis) could be employed.
  • an adaptive threshold in voice activity detection. Such thresholds must not be adjusted during speech periods or the speech signal will be thresholded out. It is accordingly necessary to control the threshold adapter using a speech/non-speech control signal, and it is preferable that this control signal should be independent of the output of the threshold adapter.
  • the threshold T is adaptively adjusted so as to keep the threshold level just above the level of the measure M when noise only is present. Since the measure will in general vary randomly when noise is present, the threshold is varied by determining an average level over a number of blocks, and setting the threshold at a level proportional to this average. In a noisy environment this is not usually sufficient, however, and so an assessment of the degree of variation of the parameter over several blocks is also taken into account.
  • an input 1 receives a signal which is sampled and digitised by analogue to digital converter (ADC) 2, and supplied to the input of an inverse filter analyser 3, which in practice is part of a speech coder with which the voice activity detector is to work, and which generates coefficients L i (typically 8) of a filter corresponding to the inverse of the input signal spectrum.
  • ADC analogue to digital converter
  • the digitised signal is also supplied to an autocorrelator 4, (which is part of analyser 3) which generates the autocorrelation vector R i of the input signal (or at least as many low order terms as there are LPC coefficients). Operation of these parts of the apparatus is as described in Figures 1 and 2.
  • the autocorrelation coefficients R i are then averaged over several successive speech frames (typically 5-20 ms long) to improve their reliability. This may be achieved by storing each set of autocorrelations coefficients output by autocorrelator 4 in a buffer 4a, and employing an averager 4b to produce a weighted sum of the current autocorrelation coefficients R i and those from previous frames stored in and supplied from buffer 4a.
  • the averaged autocorrelation coefficients Ra i thus derived are supplied to weighting and adding means 5,6 which receives also the autocorrelation vector A i of stored noise-period inverse filter coefficients L i from an autocorrelator 14 via buffer 15, and forms from Ra i and A i a measure M preferably defined as:
  • thresholder 7 This measure is then thresholded by thresholder 7 against a threshold level, and the logical result provides an indication of the presence or absence of speech at output 8.
  • the inverse filter coefficients L i correspond to a fair estimate of the inverse of the noise spectrum, it is desirable to update these coefficients during periods of noise (and, of course, not to update during periods of speech). It is, however, preferable that the speech/non-speech decision on which the updating is based does not depend upon the result of the updating, or else a single wrongly identified frame of signal may result in the voice activity detector subsequently going "out of lock" and wrongly identifying following frames.
  • a control signal generating circuit 20 effectively a separate voice activity detector, which forms an independent control signal indicating the presence or absence of speech to control inverse filter analyser 3 (or buffer 8) so that the inverse filter autocorrelation coefficients A i used to form the measure M are only updated during "noise" periods.
  • the control signal generator circuit 20 includes LPC analyser 21 (which again may be part of a speech coder and, specifically, may be performed by analyser 3), which produces a set of LPC coefficients M i corresponding to the input signal and an autocorrelator 21a (which may be performed by autocorrelator 3a) which derives the autocorrelation coefficients B i of M i .
  • a measure of the spectral similarity between the input speech frame and the preceding speech frame is thus calculated; this may be the Itakura-Saito distortion measure between R i of the present frame and B i of the preceding frame, as disclosed above, or it may instead be derived by calculating the Itakura - Saito distortion measure for R i and B i of the present frame, and subtracting (in subtractor 25) the corresponding measure for the previous frame stored in buffer 24, to generate a spectral difference signal (in either case, the measure is preferably energy-normalised by dividing by R o ).
  • the buffer 24 is then, of course, updated.
  • a voiced speech detection circuit comprising a pitch analyser 27 (which in practice may operate as part of a speech coder, and in particular may measure the long term predictor lag value produced in a multipulse LPC coder).
  • the pitch analyser 27 produces a logic signal which is "true” when voiced speech is detected, and this signal, together with the thresholded measure derived from thresholder 26 (which will generally be “true” when unvoiced speech is present) are supplied to the inputs of a NOR gate 28 to generate a signal which is “false” when speech is present and “true” when noise is present.
  • This signal is supplied to buffer 8 (or to inverse filter analyser 3) so that inverse filter coefficients L i are only updated during noise periods.
  • Threshold adapter 29 is also connected to receive the non-speech signal control output of control signal generator circuit 20. The output of the threshold adapter 29 is supplied to thresholder 7. The threshold adapter operates to increment or decrement the threshold in steps which are a proportion of the instant threshold value, until the threshold approximates the noise power level (which may conveniently be derived from, for example, weighting and adding circuits 22, 23). When the input signal is very low, it may be desirable that the threshold is automatically set to a fixed, low, level since at the low signal levels the effect of signal quantisation produced by ADC 2 can produce unreliable results.
  • hangover generating means 30 which operates to measure the duration of indications of speech after thresholder 7 and, when the presence of speech has been indicated for a period in excess of a predetermined time constant, the output is held high for a short "hangover" period. In this way, clipping of the middle of low-level speech bursts is avoided, and appropriate selection of the time constant prevents triggering of the hangover generator 30 by short spikes of noise which are falsely indicated as speech.
  • DSP Digital Signal Processing
  • the voice detection apparatus may be implemented as part of an LPC codec.
  • autocorrelation coefficients of the signal or related measures partial correlation, or "parcor", coefficients
  • the voice detection may take place distantly from the codec.

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  1. Vorrichtung zum Erfassen der Anwesenheit von Sprache, die aufweist:
    (i) Eine Einrichtung (1) zum Empfangen eines ersten Eingangssignales;
    (ii) eine Einrichtung (14, 15) zum periodischen adaptiven Erzeugen eines zweiten Signales, das eine geschätzte Rauschsignalkomponente des ersten Signales darstellt;
    (iii) eine Einrichtung (4, 5, 6) zum periodischen Bilden aus dem ersten und zweiten Signal eines Maßes M der spektralen Ähnlichkeit zwischen einem Abschnitt des Eingangssignales und der geschätzten Rauschsignalkomponente; und
    (iv) eine Einrichtung (7) zum Vergleichen des Maßes M mit einem Schwellwert T, um eine Ausgabe zu erzeugen, die die Anwesenheit oder Abwesenheit von Sprache anzeigt;
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß
    (v) die Vorrichtung eine Analyseeinrichtung (13, 3) aufweist, die betreibbar ist, um die Koeffizienten eines Filters, das eine Spektralantwort hat, die die Inverse des Frequenzspektrums eines der beiden Signale ist, zu erzeugen; und
    (vi) die maßbildende Einrichtung (4, 5, 6), die betreibbar ist, um ein Maß M zu erzeugen, das proportional zu der Autokorrelation R'₀ nullter Ordnung eines Signales ist, das durch Filtern des anderen der beiden Signale durch ein Filter erhalten wird, das die Koeffizienten hat.
  2. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 1, in der die Analyseeinrichtung (13, 3) ein adaptives Filter aufweist.
  3. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 1, in der die erzeugende Einrichtung (14, 15) betreibbar ist, um die Autokorrelationskoeffizienten Ai der Impulsantwort der Koeffizienten zu berechnen, und in der die maßbildende Einheit (4) eine Einrichtung zum Berechnen der Autokorrelationskoeffizienten Ri des anderen Signales aufweist, und eine Einrichtung (5, 6), die verbunden ist, um Ri und Ai zu empfangen und das Maß daraus zu berechnen.
  4. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 2, bei der die Einrichtung (4) zum Berechnen der Autokorrelationskoeffizienten Ri des anderen Signales angeordnet ist (4a, 4b), um dies in Abhängigkeit von den Autokorrelationskoeffizienten mehrerer aufeinanderfolgender Abschnitte des Signales zu machen.
  5. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 3 oder 4, bei der gilt:

    M = R₀A₀ + 2Σ R i A i
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    wobei Ai den i-ten Autokorrelationskoeffizienten der Impulsantwort des Filters darstellt.
  6. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 3 oder 4, bei der gilt:
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     wobei Ai den i-ten Autokorrelationskoeffizienten der Impulsantwort des Filters darstellt.
  7. Vorrichtung gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 6, bei der das eine Signal das zweite Rauschen darstellende Signal ist und das andere Signal das erste Eingangssignal ist.
  8. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 7, die weiterhin einen Eingang (11) aufweist, der angeordnet ist, um ein zweites Eingangssignal zu empfangen, das ähnlich Rauschen unterworfen ist, von dem Sprache abwesend ist, in dem die erzeugende Einrichtung eine LPC-Analyseeinrichtung (13) aufweist, zum Ableiten der Werte von Ai aus dem zweiten Eingangssignal.
  9. Vorrichtung gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 7, die weiterhin einen Puffer (15) aufweist, der verbunden ist, um Daten zu speichern, aus denen die Autokorrelationskoeffizienten Ai der Filterantwort erhalten werden können, in der die Filterantwort periodisch von dem Signal durch eine LPC-Analyseeinrichtung (3) berechnet wird, wobei die Vorrichtung so verbunden und gesteuert ist, daß das Maß M berechnet wird unter Verwendung der gespeicherten Daten, und wobei die gespeicherten Daten nur von Perioden aktualisiert werden, in denen Sprache als anwesend angezeigt ist.
  10. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 9, die weiterhin eine Einrichtung (20) zum Anzeigen der Abwesenheit von Sprache aufweist, um das Aktualisieren der gespeicherten Daten zu steuern, wobei die Einrichtung (20) zum Anzeigen der Abwesenheit von Sprache eine zweite Sprachaktivitätserfassungseinrichtung (20) ist.
  11. Vorrichtung gemäß einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, die weiterhin eine Einrichtung (29) zum Einstellen des Schwellwertes T während Perioden, wenn Sprache als abwesend angezeigt ist, aufweist.
  12. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 11, die weiterhin eine zweite Erfassungseinrichtung (20) für die Anwesenheit von Sprache aufweist, die angeordnet ist, um die Einstellung des Schwellwertes zu verhindern, wenn Sprache vorliegt.
  13. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 10, die weiterhin eine Einrichtung (20) zum Einstellen des Schwellwertes T während Perioden aufweist, bei denen Sprache als anwesend angezeigt wird, wobei die zweite Erfassungseinrichtung (20) für die Anwesenheit von Sprache angeordnet ist, um eine Einstellung des Schwellenwertes zu verhindern, wenn Sprache vorliegt.
  14. Vorrichtung gemäß den Ansprüchen 11, 12 oder 13, bei der der Schwellwert T, wenn eingestellt, eingestellt ist, um gleich dem Mittel des Maßes plus einem Term zu sein, der ein Bruchteil der Standardabweichung des Maßes ist.
  15. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 10, 13 oder 14, bei dem die zweite Sprachaktivitätserfassungseinrichtung (20) eine Einrichtung (4, 21, 21a, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26) zum Erzeugen eines Maßes der spektralen Ähnlichkeit zwischen einem Abschnitt des Eingabesignales und früherer Abschnitte des Eingabesignales aufweist.
  16. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 15, bei der die das Ähnlichkeitsmaß erzeugende Einrichtung Einrichtungen (4, 21, 22, 23) aufweist zum Bereitstellen aus LPC-Filterdaten und Autokorrelationsdaten, die sich auf einen vorliegenden Abschnitt des Eingangssignales beziehen, eines vorliegenden Verzerrungsmaßes, eine Einrichtung (24) zum Bereitstellen eines äquivalenten Verzerrungsmaßes des vergangenen Rahmens, entsprechend einem vorhergehenden Abschnitt des Eingangssignales, und Einrichtungen (25, 26) zum Erzeugen eines Signales, das den Grad der Ähnlichkeit zwischen ihnen als ein Indikator von Sprachanwesenheit oder -abwesenheit anzeigt.
  17. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 15 oder 16, bei der die zweite Erfassungseinrichtung (20) für die Anwesenheit von Sprache weiterhin eine Erfassungseinrichtung für stimmhafte Sprache (27) aufweist, die eine Tonhöheanalyseeinrichtung (27) aufweist zum Erzeugen eines Signales, das die Anwesenheit von stimmhafter Sprache anzeigt, von dessen Ausgabe die zweite Erfassungseinrichtung (20) für die Anwesenheit von Sprache ebenfalls abhängt.
  18. Verfahren zum Erfassen der Anwesenheit von Sprache in einem ersten Eingangssignal, das aufweist:
    (a) Periodisches adaptives Erzeugen eines zweiten Signales, das eine geschätzte Rauschsignalkomponente des ersten Signales darstellt;
    (b) periodisches Bilden aus dem ersten und zweiten Signal eines Maßes M der spektralen Ähnlichkeit zwischen einem Abschnitt des Eingangssignales und der geschätzten Rauschsignalkomponente; und
    (c) Vergleichen des Maßes M mit einem Schwellwert T, um eine Ausgabe zu produzieren, die die Anwesenheit oder Abwesenheit von Sprache anzeigt;
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß
    (d) der Schritt des Produzierens der Koeffizienten eines Filters, das eine Spektralantwort hat, die die Inverse des Frequenzspektrums eines der beiden Signale ist; und darin, daß
    (e) das Maß M proportional zu der Autokorrelation R'₀ nullter Ordnung eines Signales ist, das durch Filtern des anderen der beiden Signale durch ein Filter erhalten wird, der die Koeffizienten hat.
  19. Vorrichtung zum Codieren von Sprachsignalen, die eine Vorrichtung gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 17 aufweist.
  20. Mobiltelefonvorrichtung, die eine Vorrichtung gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 17 aufweist.
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