Noise robust speech recognition with support vector learning algorithms
Hassan H. Namarvar, Theodore W. Berger · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2004
We propose a new noise robust speech recognition system using time-frequency domain analysis and radial basis function (RBF) support vector machines (SVM). Here, we ignore the effects of correlative and nonstationary noise and only focus on continuous additive Gaussian white noise. We then develop an isolated digit/command recognizer and compare its performance to two other systems, in which the SVM classifier has been replaced by multilayer perceptron (MLP) and RBF neural networks. All systems are trained under the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) condition. We obtained the best correct classification rate of 83% and 52% for digit recognition on the TI-46 corpus for the SVM and MLP systems, respectively under the SNR=0 (dB), while we could not train the RBF network for the same dataset. The newly developed speech recognition system seems to be noise robust for medium size speech recognition problems under continuous, stationary background noise. However, it is still required to test the system under realistic noisy environment to observe whether the system keeps its adaptability and robustness under such conditions. [Work supported in part by grants from DARPA CBS, NASA, and ONR.]