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The Effect of Vehicle Noise on Automatic Speech Recognition Systems
SAE International (Technical Paper 2017-01-1864), 2017
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- What it is
- A technical paper on how cabin noise from the road surface and the heating and ventilation system affects speech recognition inside a vehicle. It relates sentence error rate to standard noise and vibration measurements.
- How much weight it carries
- Published by an automotive engineering society after its own review process, but it is a technical paper rather than a journal article. The conclusions apply to cars, and the abstract is all that was read here.
Facts taken from this source
- A 2017 SAE paper concludes that AI% should be the preferred metric for relating cabin noise to speech recognition performance when the noise is steady.
“AI% should be the preferred metric to relate cabin noise to ASR performance in the presence of any other kind of steady state noise.” (Abstract)