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Feature enhancement and selection methods for isolated Malay speech recognition

Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Electronic Engineering

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Main Author: Chong, Yen Fook
Other Authors: Vikneswaran, Vijean, Dr.
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) 2017
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Automatic speech recognition
Speech perception
Malay language
Online Access:http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/77999
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spelling my.unimap-779992023-03-06T04:27:59Z Feature enhancement and selection methods for isolated Malay speech recognition Chong, Yen Fook Vikneswaran, Vijean, Dr. Automatic speech recognition Speech perception Malay language Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Electronic Engineering Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a technique to translate automatically incoming speech signal into their contextual information. In the pass few decade, various acoustic feature extraction and classification algorithms have been developed for native English speech recognition and different languages spoken around the world using acoustic signals. Research in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) by machines had been done for more than five decades. Various research findings have been reported in recent years in speech recognition for many different languages. However, every languages having their own unique words structure. As examples, English words are formed due to the changes of phoneme in the based word itself according to its group of words and Malay words allow addition of affixes to the base word to form new words. In this research, signal processing techniques are applied to the acoustic signals in an effort to recognize the Malay speech. To reduce the misclassification, the recorded speech signals were segmented to remove the unvoiced speech (noise). In this research works, parametric Linear Prediction Coefficients (LPC), Linear Prediction Cepstral Coefficient (LPCC), Weighted Linear Prediction Coefficients (WLPCC), Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) and non-parametric Wavelet Packet Transform based Energy and Entropy (WPT-EE) representations of features were extracted. The features extracted were enhanced to increase the discriminant ability using artificial bee colony based clustering. Then, the enhanced features set were dimensionally reduced by using two feature selection techniques. They are binary particle swarm optimization (BPSO) and discrete artificial bee colony (DABC) feature selection technique. Last, two classifiers as the probabilistic neural network (PNN) and extreme learning machine (ELM) were used to evaluate the performance of extracted and enhanced features from recorded Malay speech signal. The proposed artificial bee colony based feature enhancement (ABC-FE) features show promising average results of 99.61% (Speaker Dependent) and 96.21% (Speaker Independent). Experimental results showed that the average accuracy obtained by using hybrid features of LPC, LPCC, WLPCC, MFCC and WPT-EE for Speaker Dependent and Speaker Independent with ELM classifier were 97.89% (PSO)- 98 features and 99.33% (ABC)-67 features for Malay speech recognition. 2017 2023-03-06T04:25:14Z 2023-03-06T04:25:14Z Thesis http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/77999 en Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) School of Mechatronic Engineering
institution Universiti Malaysia Perlis
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country Malaysia
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url_provider http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/
language English
topic Automatic speech recognition
Speech perception
Malay language
spellingShingle Automatic speech recognition
Speech perception
Malay language
Chong, Yen Fook
Feature enhancement and selection methods for isolated Malay speech recognition
description Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Electronic Engineering
author2 Vikneswaran, Vijean, Dr.
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Chong, Yen Fook
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author Chong, Yen Fook
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title Feature enhancement and selection methods for isolated Malay speech recognition
title_short Feature enhancement and selection methods for isolated Malay speech recognition
title_full Feature enhancement and selection methods for isolated Malay speech recognition
title_fullStr Feature enhancement and selection methods for isolated Malay speech recognition
title_full_unstemmed Feature enhancement and selection methods for isolated Malay speech recognition
title_sort feature enhancement and selection methods for isolated malay speech recognition
publisher Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)
publishDate 2017
url http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/77999
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