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Automatic Speech Recognition has been an active topic of research for the past four decades. The main objective of the automatic speech recognition task is to convert a speech segment into an interpretable text message without the need of human intervention. Many different algorithms and schemes based on different mathematical paradigms have been proposed in an attempt to improve recognition rates. Cepstral coefficients play an important part in speech theory and in automatic speech recognition in particular due to their ability to compactly represent relevant information that is contained in a short time sample of a continuous speech signal. The goal of this paper is to discuss comparison of speech parameterization methods: Mel-Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients (MFCC) and improved Mel-Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients (MFCC) using RASTA filters. Thus, in this study, we try to improve the MFCC algorithms to achieve much accuracy reducing the error rates in Automatic Speech Recognition. First, we remove signal correlation through normalization, then we use RASTA filter to filtering the cepstral coefficients. Finally, we reduce dimension of the cepstral coefficients by the variances of cepstral coefficients in different dimension and obtain our features. By using various classifiers, we try to simulate the speech feature extraction at much optimal and least error rate providing robust method for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASRs).
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Singh, L., Chetty, G. (2012). A Comparative Study of Recognition of Speech Using Improved MFCC Algorithms and Rasta Filters. In: Dua, S., Gangopadhyay, A., Thulasiraman, P., Straccia, U., Shepherd, M., Stein, B. (eds) Information Systems, Technology and Management. ICISTM 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 285. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29166-1_27
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