Calculation of speech rate

Abstract

his semestral thesis deals with a design of system for calculating the rate of speech. The sys-tem consists of several block, such as signal pre-processing block and its segmentation into smaller parts, block of the feature calculation, block of the feature vector quantization and finally block calculating the actual rate. The first step is a change of the input speech signal into a form suitable for the feature extraction. In next step these features are assigned to the calculated centroids. The change of centroid means change of phonemes. The system will record the following boundaries of fonems contained in speech and calculates its rate