Abstract

In the present study, a new feature extraction method based on relative spectra and gammachirp auditory filterbank is proposed for robust noisy speech recognition. The relative spectra filtering are applied to the log of the output of the gammachirp filterbank which incorporates the properties of the cochlear filter in order to remove uncorrelated additive noise components. The performances of this method have been evaluated on the isolated speech word corrupted by real-world noisy environments using the continuous Gausian-Mixture density Hidden Markov Model. The evaluation of the experimental results shows that the proposed method achieves best recognition rates compared to the conventional techniques like Perceptual Linear Prediction (PLP), Linear Predictive Cepstral Coefficients (LPCC) and Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC).

Keywords:

Auditory filterbank , hidden Markov models , noisy speech parameterization,

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