Residual Excitation Skewness for Automatic Speech Polarity Detection

05/31/2020

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by   Thomas Drugman, et al.

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Detecting the correct speech polarity is a necessary step prior to several speech processing techniques. An error on its determination could have a dramatic detrimental impact on their performance. As current systems have to deal with increasing amounts of data stemming from multiple devices, the automatic detection of speech polarity has become a crucial problem. For this purpose, we here propose a very simple algorithm based on the skewness of two excitation signals. The method is shown on 10 speech corpora (8545 files) to lead to an error rate of only 0.06 outperform four state-of-the-art methods. Besides it significantly reduces the computational load through its simplicity and is observed to exhibit the strongest robustness in both noisy and reverberant environments.