The convolutional neural networks for Amazigh speech recognition system

In this paper, we present an approach based on convolutional neural networks to build an automatic speech recognition system for the Amazigh language. This system is built with TensorFlow and uses mel frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) to extract features. In order to test the effect of the speaker's gender and age on the accuracy of the model, the system was trained and tested on several datasets. The first experiment the dataset consists of 9240 audio files. The second experiment the dataset consists of 9240 audio files distributed between females and males’ speakers. The last experiment 3 the dataset consists of 13860 audio files distributed between age 9-15, age 16-30, and age 30+. The result shows that the model trained on a dataset of adult speaker’s age +30 categories generates the best accuracy with 93.9%

Voice Identification Using Classification Algorithms

This article discusses the classification algorithms for the problem of personality identification by voice using machine learning methods. We used the MFCC algorithm in the speech preprocessing process. To solve the problem, a comparative analysis of five classification algorithms was carried out. In the first experiment, the support vector method was determined—0.90 and multilayer perceptron—0.83, that showed the best results. In the second experiment, a multilayer perceptron with an accuracy of 0.93 was proposed using the Robust scaler method for personal identification. Therefore, to solve this problem, it is possible to use a multi-layer perceptron, taking into account the specifics of the speech signal

Stimulated training for automatic speech recognition and keyword search in limited resource conditions

© 2017 IEEE. Training neural network acoustic models on limited quantities of data is a challenging task. A number of techniques have been proposed to improve generalisation. This paper investigates one such technique called stimulated training. It enables standard criteria such as cross-entropy to enforce spatial constraints on activations originating from different units. Having different regions being active depending on the input unit may help network to discriminate better and as a consequence yield lower error rates. This paper investigates stimulated training for automatic speech recognition of a number of languages representing different families, alphabets, phone sets and vocabulary sizes. In particular, it looks at ensembles of stimulated networks to ensure that improved generalisation will withstand system combination effects. In order to assess stimulated training beyond 1-best transcription accuracy, this paper looks at keyword search as a proxy for assessing quality of lattices. Experiments are conducted on IARPA Babel program languages including the surprise language of OpenKWS 2016 competition