Perceptual Linear Prediction Feature as an Indicator of Dysphonia

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer C. Saldanha ◽  
Malini Suvarna
Keyword(s):  
Linear Prediction ◽  
Perceptual Linear Prediction

Comparison of Several Acoustic Modeling Techniques for Speech Emotion Recognition

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imen Trabelsi ◽  
Med Salim Bouhlel
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Linear Prediction ◽  
Recognition Rate ◽  
Gaussian Mixture ◽  
Speech Emotion Recognition ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Leibler Divergence ◽  
Perceptual Linear Prediction

Automatic Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is a current research topic in the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) with a wide range of applications. The purpose of speech emotion recognition system is to automatically classify speaker's utterances into different emotional states such as disgust, boredom, sadness, neutral, and happiness. The speech samples in this paper are from the Berlin emotional database. Mel Frequency cepstrum coefficients (MFCC), Linear prediction coefficients (LPC), linear prediction cepstrum coefficients (LPCC), Perceptual Linear Prediction (PLP) and Relative Spectral Perceptual Linear Prediction (Rasta-PLP) features are used to characterize the emotional utterances using a combination between Gaussian mixture models (GMM) and Support Vector Machines (SVM) based on the Kullback-Leibler Divergence Kernel. In this study, the effect of feature type and its dimension are comparatively investigated. The best results are obtained with 12-coefficient MFCC. Utilizing the proposed features a recognition rate of 84% has been achieved which is close to the performance of humans on this database.

Discriminative Training Using Noise Robust Integrated Features and Refined HMM Modeling

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 327-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohit Dua ◽  
Rajesh Kumar Aggarwal ◽  
Mantosh Biswas
Keyword(s):  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Linear Prediction ◽  
Extraction Methods ◽  
Discriminative Training ◽  
Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients ◽  
Maximum Mutual Information ◽  
Perceptual Linear Prediction ◽  
Noise Robust ◽  
Minimum Phone Error ◽  
Asr System

Abstract The classical approach to build an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system uses different feature extraction methods at the front end and various parameter classification techniques at the back end. The Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) and perceptual linear prediction (PLP) techniques are the conventional approaches used for many years for feature extraction, and the hidden Markov model (HMM) has been the most obvious selection for feature classification. However, the performance of MFCC-HMM and PLP-HMM-based ASR system degrades in real-time environments. The proposed work discusses the implementation of discriminatively trained Hindi ASR system using noise robust integrated features and refined HMM model. It sequentially combines MFCC with PLP and MFCC with gammatone-frequency cepstral coefficient (GFCC) to obtain MF-PLP and MF-GFCC integrated feature vectors, respectively. The HMM parameters are refined using genetic algorithm (GA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO). Discriminative training of acoustic model using maximum mutual information (MMI) and minimum phone error (MPE) is preformed to enhance the accuracy of the proposed system. The results show that discriminative training using MPE with MF-GFCC integrated feature vector and PSO-HMM parameter refinement gives significantly better results than the other implemented techniques.

An Encapsulation of Vital Non-Linear Frequency Features for Various Speech Applications

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 303-307
Author(s):  
S. Lalitha ◽  
Deepa Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Linear Prediction ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Speaker Identification ◽  
Frequency Estimation ◽  
Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients ◽  
Environment Type ◽  
Perceptual Linear Prediction ◽  
Frequency Features ◽  
Selection Of

Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) and Perceptual linear prediction coefficients (PLPCs) are widely casted nonlinear vocal parameters in majority of the speaker identification, speaker and speech recognition techniques as well in the field of emotion recognition. Post 1980s, significant exertions are put forth on for the progress of these features. Considerations like the usage of appropriate frequency estimation approaches, proposal of appropriate filter banks, and selection of preferred features perform a vital part for the strength of models employing these features. This article projects an overview of MFCC and PLPC features for different speech applications. The insights such as performance metrics of accuracy, background environment, type of data, and size of features are inspected and concise with the corresponding key references. Adding more to this, the advantages and shortcomings of these features have been discussed. This background work will hopefully contribute to floating a heading step in the direction of the enhancement of MFCC and PLPC with respect to novelty, raised levels of accuracy, and lesser complexity.

scholarly journals Performance of Speaker Verification Using CSM and TM

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-127
Author(s):  
S. Sathiamoorthy ◽  
R. Ponnusamy ◽  
R. Visalakshi
Keyword(s):  
Linear Prediction ◽  
Speaker Verification ◽  
Noisy Environment ◽  
Combined System ◽  
Verification System ◽  
Spectral Transform ◽  
Complementary Nature ◽  
Perceptual Linear Prediction ◽  
The One ◽  
Environment Noise

In this paper, we presented the performance of a speaker verification system based on features computed from the speech recorded using a Close Speaking Microphone(CSM) and Throat Microphone(TM) in clean and noisy environment. Noise is the one of the most complicated problem in speaker verification system. The background noises affect the performance of speaker verification using CSM. To overcome this issue, TM is used which has a transducer held at the throat resulting in a clean signal and unaffected by background noises. Acoustic features are computed by means of Relative Spectral Transform-Perceptual Linear Prediction (RASTA-PLP). Autoassociative neural network (AANN) technique is used to extract the features and in order to confirm the speakers from clean and noisy environment. A new method is presented in this paper, for verification of speakers in clean using combined CSM and TM. The verification performance of the proposed combined system is significantly better than the system using the CSM alone due to the complementary nature of CSM and TM. It is evident that an EER of about 1.0% for the combined devices (CSM+TM) by evaluating the FAR and FRR values and the overall verification of 99% is obtained in clean speech.

Features Extraction for Lhasa Tibetan Speech Recognition

2014 ◽  
Vol 571-572 ◽  
pp. 205-208
Author(s):  
Guan Yu Li ◽  
Hong Zhi Yu ◽  
Yong Hong Li ◽  
Ning Ma
Keyword(s):  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Linear Prediction ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Continuous Speech Recognition ◽  
Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients ◽  
Linear Prediction Coefficient ◽  
Speech Feature ◽  
Perceptual Linear Prediction ◽  
Prediction Coefficient ◽  
Speech Feature Extraction

Speech feature extraction is discussed. Mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) and perceptual linear prediction coefficient (PLP) method is analyzed. These two types of features are extracted in Lhasa large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system. Then the recognition results are compared.

Optimizing Integrated Features for Hindi Automatic Speech Recognition System

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 959-976
Author(s):  
Mohit Dua ◽  
Rajesh Kumar Aggarwal ◽  
Mantosh Biswas
Keyword(s):  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Automatic Speech Recognition ◽  
Linear Prediction ◽  
Optimization Methods ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Extraction Methods ◽  
Automatic Speech Recognition System ◽  
Sequential Combination ◽  
Perceptual Linear Prediction ◽  
Asr System

Abstract An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system translates spoken words or utterances (isolated, connected, continuous, and spontaneous) into text format. State-of-the-art ASR systems mainly use Mel frequency (MF) cepstral coefficient (MFCC), perceptual linear prediction (PLP), and Gammatone frequency (GF) cepstral coefficient (GFCC) for extracting features in the training phase of the ASR system. Initially, the paper proposes a sequential combination of all three feature extraction methods, taking two at a time. Six combinations, MF-PLP, PLP-MFCC, MF-GFCC, GF-MFCC, GF-PLP, and PLP-GFCC, are used, and the accuracy of the proposed system using all these combinations was tested. The results show that the GF-MFCC and MF-GFCC integrations outperform all other proposed integrations. Further, these two feature vector integrations are optimized using three different optimization methods, particle swarm optimization (PSO), PSO with crossover, and PSO with quadratic crossover (Q-PSO). The results demonstrate that the Q-PSO-optimized GF-MFCC integration show significant improvement over all other optimized combinations.

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