Spectral Analysis of Speech: A New Technique

ICA which is generally used for blind source separation problem has been tested for feature extraction in Speech recognition system to replace the phoneme based approach of MFCC. Applying the Cepstral coefficients generated to ICA as preprocessing has developed a new signal processing approach. This gives much better results against MFCC and ICA separately, both for word and speaker recognition. The mixing matrix A is different before and after MFCC as expected. As Mel is a nonlinear scale. However, cepstrals generated from Linear Predictive Coefficient being independent prove to be the right candidate for ICA. Matlab is the tool used for all comparisons. The database used is samples of ISOLET.

Authors:

• Neeta Awasthy
• J.P.Saini
• D.S.Chauhan

Keywords:

• Cepstral Coefficient
• Distance measures
• Independent Component Analysis
• Linear Predictive Coefficients.

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