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KIKIWAKE: sound source separation system for children-computer interaction

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In general living environments, in order to separate children's voices from backgrounds noise, we developed a sound separation system by a microphone array. We created a game by use of this developed system, and conducted evaluation experiment intended for elementary school children. As a result, we confirmed this system could separate 3 voices, and the game promotes children's interest in or concerns about a microphone array in a quantitative way.

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#Contents: mixed_voices.wav separated_voice_1.wav separated_voice_2.wav separated_voice_3.wav #Explanation of each file: 1. mixed_voices.wav This file is recorded voices of three talkers. Three talkers bring out different words simultaneously. [Word : Uma(horse), Kuma(bear), Shika(deer)] 2. separated_voice_1.wav, separated_voice_2.wav, separated_voice_3.wav Each file is recorded voice separated by our system. separated_voice_1.wav is "Uma", separated_voice_2.wav is "Kuma", and separated_voice_3.wav is "Shika". #Necessary Software: software that can play wav files

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CHI EA '13: CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
April 2013
3360 pages
ISBN:9781450319522
DOI:10.1145/2468356
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  1. microphone array
  2. signal processing
  3. sound source separation

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  • (2014)KIKIWAKEProceedings of the 2014 conference on Interaction design and children10.1145/2593968.2610468(265-268)Online publication date: 17-Jun-2014
  • (2014)Implementation and evaluation of listenability-centered sound separation system2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2014)10.1109/ROBIO.2014.7090695(2383-2388)Online publication date: Dec-2014
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