Problem statement: Fusion weight tuning based on score reliability is imperative in order to ensure the performances of multibiometric systems are sustained. Approach: In this study, two variant of conditions i.e., different performances of individual subsystems and inconsistent quality of test samples are experimented to multibiometric systems. By applying multialgorithm scheme, two types of f...

In recent times with the extensive improvement of computers, numerous methods of data interchange between man and computer are revealed. It aims to provide an efficient way for human to communicate with computers exclusively for people with disabilities who face diversity of obstacles while using computers. This paper predominantly focuses on developing an efficient speech recognition system fo...

Identical acoustic features like Mel frequency cepstral Coefficients (MFCC)and Linear predictive cepstral coefficients (LPCC) are being widely used for different tasks like speech recognition and speaker recognition, whereas the requirement of speaker recognition is different than that of speech recognition. In MFCC feature representation, the Mel frequency scale is used to get a high resolutio...

Speech recognition is of an important contribution in promoting new technologies in human computer interaction. Today, there is a growing need to employ speech technology in daily life and business activities. However, speech recognition is a challenging task that requires different stages before obtaining the desired output. Among automatic speech recognition (ASR) components is the feature ex...

In this paper, a novel pitch mean based frequency warping (PMFW) method is proposed to reduce the pitch variability in speech signals at the frontend of speech recognition. The warp factors used in this process are calculated based on the average pitch of a speech segment. Two functions to describe the relations between the frequency warping factor and the pitch mean are defined and compared. W...

In this work a multilingual speaker identification system is proposed. The feature extraction techniques employed in the system extract Mel frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC), delta mel frequency cepstral coefficient (DMFCC) and format frequency. The feature selection is done using hybrid model of particle swarm optimizatiom (PSO) and Genetic Algorithm (GA). We have used Back Propagation (BP...

In this paper we introduce a robust feature extractor, dubbed as Modified Function Cepstral Coefficients (MODFCC), based on gammachirp filterbank, Relative Spectral (RASTA) and Autoregressive Moving-Average (ARMA) filter. The goal of this work is to improve the robustness of speech recognition systems in additive noise and real-time reverberant environments. In speech recognition systems Mel-Fr...

In the analysis of musical acoustics, we usually use the power spectrum to describe the difference between timbres from two music instruments. However, according to our experiments, the power spectrum cannot be used as effective features for erhu instrument identification. In this paper, we use MFCC (mel-scale frequency cepstral coefficients) as features for music instrument identification usin...