Standard Mel frequency cepstrum coefficient (MFCC) computation technique utilizes discrete cosine transform (DCT) for decorrelating log energies of filter bank output. The use of DCT is reasonable here as the covariance matrix of Mel filter bank log energy (MFLE) can be compared with that of highly correlated Markov-I process. This full-band based MFCC computation technique where each of the fi...

We introduce a set of speaker dependent features derived from the positions of vowels in Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC) space relative to a reference vowel. The MFCCs for a particular speaker are transformed using simple operations into features that can be used to classify vowels from a common reference point. Classification performance of vowels using Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs)...

Recording engineers, mixers and producers play important yet often overlooked roles in defining the sound of a particular record, artist or group. The placement of different sound sources in space using stereo panning information is an important component of the production process. Audio classification systems typically convert stereo signals to mono and to the best of our knowledge have not ut...

Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients are used as an abstract representation of the spectral envelope of a given signal. Although they have been shown to be a powerful descriptor for speech and music signals, more accurate and easily interpretable options can be devised. In this study, we present and evaluate the shape-based spectral contrast descriptor, which is build up from the previously prop...

The aim of this study was to assess the applicability of Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) of voice samples in diagnosing vocal nodules and polyps. Patients’ voice samples were analysed acoustically with the measurement of MFCC and values of the first three formants. Classification of mel coefficients was performed by applying the Sammon Mapping and Support Vector Machines. For the tes...

The Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) are commonly used in speech recognition systems. But, they are high sensitive to presence of external noise. In this paper, we propose a noise compensation method for Mel filter bank energies and so MFCC features. This compensation method is performed in two stages: Mel sub-band filtering and then compression of Mel-sub-band energies. In the compre...

Enhancing the performance of emotional speaker recognition process has witnessed an increasing interest in the last years. This paper highlights a methodology for speaker recognition under different emotional states based on the multiclass Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. We compare two feature extraction methods which are used to represent emotional speech utterances in order to obtain...

Nowadays the electronic gadgets have been updated to store large amount of music information. It is necessary to have an efficient retrieval system to choose the required data. The important task in audio retrieval system is feature extraction. In the feature extraction stage, the feature which gives relevant information about music has to be extracted. In this paper, various Mel based feature ...

Underwater signal processing based on passive acoustic technology has carried out a lot of research the behavioral sound underwater creatures and protection marine resources, which proves feasibility for long-term non-destructive monitoring biological production. However, at present, most relevant focuses fish but little shrimp. At same time, as main economic breeding industry, Penaeus vannamei...