Evolutionary cepstral coefficients

نویسندگان

  • Leandro Daniel Vignolo
  • Hugo Leonardo Rufiner
  • Diego H. Milone
  • John C. Goddard
چکیده

Evolutionary algorithms provide flexibility and robustness required to find satisfactory solutions in complex search spaces. This is why they are successfully applied for solving real engineering problems. In this work we propose an algorithm to evolve a robust speech representation, using a dynamic data selection method for reducing the computational cost of the fitness computation while improving the generalisation capabilities. The most commonly used speech representation are the mel-frequency cepstral coefficients, which incorporate biologically inspired characteristics into artificial recognizers. Recent advances have been made with the introduction of alternatives to the classic mel scaled filterbank, improving the phoneme recognition performance in adverse conditions. In order to find an optimal filterbank, filter parameters such as the central and side frequencies are optimised. A hidden Markov model is used as the classifier for the evaluation of the fitness for each individual. Experiments were conducted using real and synthetic phoneme databases, considering ∗Corresponding author. Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Señales, Sistemas e Inteligencia Computacional, Departamento de Informática, Facultad de Ingenieŕıa y Ciencias Hı́dricas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Ciudad Universitaria CC 217, Ruta Nacional No 168 Km 472.4, TE: +54(342)4575233 ext 125, FAX: +54(342)4575224, Santa Fe (3000), Argentina. Email address: [email protected] (Leandro D. Vignolo) URL: http://fich.unl.edu.ar/sinc (Leandro D. Vignolo) Preprint submitted to Applied Soft Computing August 3, 2010 *Manuscript Click here to view linked References

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Appl. Soft Comput.

دوره 11  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011