Reconhecimento de fala contínua para o português brasileiro em sistemas embarcados.

Abstract

WIth the advent of technology, machines predominate in aímost ali seenarios of everyday life. The possibiiity of performing human-maehine comniunication through speech makes this interact.ion easier and more productive. However, processing requirements still difficult tlíe implementation oF systems for automatic continuous speech recognition on devices with low computational power sucJi as mobile phones, palmtops and appliances. To allow the implementation of speech recognition systems in this context. some works sacrifice efficiency in the recognition process for redueing the chip area and computational requirements. For this purpose, it becomes necessary to research for optimized acoustic and language modeling, associated with use of representative databases, looking for a good compromise between recognitioa vaies and compuiational demands imposed by embedded systems. The main goai of this work is to model the architecture of a system for continuous speech recognition Brazilian Portuguese, in order to enable its implementation in an embedded system with limited computtng resources. In order to select the setting that best nieets this goal, experiments and analysis were performed. The purpose of these was to identify possible adaptations, from mathematical simpiifícations and reduction of parameters in the steps of the recognition process. During the deveiopinent of this work, the relationship between recognition rate and computational cost was considered. The embedded system architecture developed and its modeling process, including experiments. analysis and their results will be presented and díscussed thxoughout this document.