Performance Evaluation of CMN for Mel-LPC based Speech Recognition in Different Noisy Environments
Md. MahfuzurRahman, Sanjit Kumar Saha, Md. Zakir Hossain, Md Babul Islam · International Journal of Computer Applications · 2012
This study is intended to develop a noise robust distributed speech recognizer for real-world applications by employing Cepstral Mean Normalization (CMN) for robust feature extraction.The main focus of the work is to cope with different noisy environments.To realize this objective, Mel-LP based speech analysis has been used in speech coding on the linear frequency scale by applying a first-order all-pass filter instead of a unit delay.Mismatch between training and test phases is reduced through robust feature extraction by applying CMN on Mel-LP cepstral coefficients as an effort to reduce additive noise and channel distortion.The performance of the proposed system has been evaluated on test set A of Aurora-2 database which is a subset of TIDigits database contaminated by additive noises and channel effects.The experiment is conducted on four different noisy environments and the baseline performance, that is, for Mel-LPC the average word accuracy has found to be 59.05%.By applying the CMN on Mel-LP cepstral coefficients, the performance has been improved to 68.02%.It is found that CMN performs significantly better for different noisy environments.