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    Automatic Speech Recognition for Indonesian using Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) and Hidden Markov Model (HMM)

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    Speech recognition is influential signal processing in communication technology. Speech recognition has allowed software to recognize the spoken word. Automatic speech recognition could be a solution to recognize the spoken word. This application was developed using Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) for feature extraction of speech signal and Hidden Markov Model (HMM) for generating the model of each the spoken word. The data of speech used for training and testing was produced by 10 speaker (5 men and 5 women) whose each speakers spoke 10 words and each of words spoken for 10 times. This research is tested using 10-fold cross validation for each pair LPC order and HMM states. System performance is measured based on the average accuracy testing from men and women speakers. According to the test results that the amount of HMM states affect the accuracy of system and the best accuracy is 94, 20% using LPC order =13 and HMM state=16

    Voice morphing using the generative topographic mapping

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    In this paper we address the problem of Voice Morphing. We attempt to transform the spectral characteristics of a source speaker's speech signal so that the listener would believe that the speech was uttered by a target speaker. The voice morphing system transforms the spectral envelope as represented by a Linear Prediction model. The transformation is achieved by codebook mapping using the Generative Topographic Mapping, a non-linear, latent variable, parametrically constrained, Gaussian Mixture Model

    Reducing Audible Spectral Discontinuities

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    In this paper, a common problem in diphone synthesis is discussed, viz., the occurrence of audible discontinuities at diphone boundaries. Informal observations show that spectral mismatch is most likely the cause of this phenomenon.We first set out to find an objective spectral measure for discontinuity. To this end, several spectral distance measures are related to the results of a listening experiment. Then, we studied the feasibility of extending the diphone database with context-sensitive diphones to reduce the occurrence of audible discontinuities. The number of additional diphones is limited by clustering consonant contexts that have a similar effect on the surrounding vowels on the basis of the best performing distance measure. A listening experiment has shown that the addition of these context-sensitive diphones significantly reduces the amount of audible discontinuities

    Automatic Speech Recognition for Indonesian using Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) and Hidden Markov Model (HMM)

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    Speech recognition is influential signal processing in communication technology. Speech recognition has allowed software to recognize the spoken word. Automatic speech recognition could be a solution to recognize the spoken word. This application was developed using Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) for feature extraction of speech signal and Hidden Markov Model (HMM) for generating the model of each the spoken word. The data of speech used for training and testing was produced by 10 speaker (5 men and 5 women) whose each speakers spoke 10 words and each of words spoken for 10 times. This research is tested using 10-fold cross validation for each pair LPC order and HMM states. System performance is measured based on the average accuracy testing from men and women speakers. According to the test results that the amount of HMM states affect the accuracy of system and the best accuracy is 94, 20% using LPC order =13 and HMM state=16

    Neural network based speech synthesizer: A preliminary report

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    A neural net based speech synthesis project is discussed. The novelty is that the reproduced speech was extracted from actual voice recordings. In essence, the neural network learns the timing, pitch fluctuations, connectivity between individual sounds, and speaking habits unique to that individual person. The parallel distributed processing network used for this project is the generalized backward propagation network which has been modified to also learn sequences of actions or states given in a particular plan

    Speech vocoding for laboratory phonology

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    Using phonological speech vocoding, we propose a platform for exploring relations between phonology and speech processing, and in broader terms, for exploring relations between the abstract and physical structures of a speech signal. Our goal is to make a step towards bridging phonology and speech processing and to contribute to the program of Laboratory Phonology. We show three application examples for laboratory phonology: compositional phonological speech modelling, a comparison of phonological systems and an experimental phonological parametric text-to-speech (TTS) system. The featural representations of the following three phonological systems are considered in this work: (i) Government Phonology (GP), (ii) the Sound Pattern of English (SPE), and (iii) the extended SPE (eSPE). Comparing GP- and eSPE-based vocoded speech, we conclude that the latter achieves slightly better results than the former. However, GP - the most compact phonological speech representation - performs comparably to the systems with a higher number of phonological features. The parametric TTS based on phonological speech representation, and trained from an unlabelled audiobook in an unsupervised manner, achieves intelligibility of 85% of the state-of-the-art parametric speech synthesis. We envision that the presented approach paves the way for researchers in both fields to form meaningful hypotheses that are explicitly testable using the concepts developed and exemplified in this paper. On the one hand, laboratory phonologists might test the applied concepts of their theoretical models, and on the other hand, the speech processing community may utilize the concepts developed for the theoretical phonological models for improvements of the current state-of-the-art applications

    Glottal Spectral Separation for Speech Synthesis

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    A study and experiment plan for digital mobile communication via satellite

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    The viability of mobile communications is examined within the context of a frequency division multiple access, single channel per carrier satellite system emphasizing digital techniques to serve a large population of users. The intent is to provide the mobile users with a grade of service consistant with the requirements for remote, rural (perhaps emergency) voice communications, but which approaches toll quality speech. A traffic model is derived on which to base the determination of the required maximum number of satellite channels to provide the anticipated level of service. Various voice digitalization and digital modulation schemes are reviewed along with a general link analysis of the mobile system. Demand assignment multiple access considerations and analysis tradeoffs are presented. Finally, a completed configuration is described
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