Effect of the Number of Codebook and MFCC on Chinese Isolated Words Recognition

Abstr act. This paper aims to design and optimize the algorithm of Chinese isolated words speech recognition, to improve the recognition accuracy and robustness. Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC) has been widely used in the art-of-state speech recognition since it considers the characteristics of human voice and sounds receiving, and has better robustness for the recognition accuracy. The MFCCs of different speech frame are relevant, and each Chinese isolated word has its own optimal number of codebook. In this paper, we use the first-order differential and second-order differential of MFCC to improve the recognition accuracy and robustness, and the results show that the difference between the first recognition probability and the second recognition probability increases. By establishing an optimal codebook for each isolated word, and using codebook adaptive algorithm, the robustness of recognition is also improved greatly.