Performance Evaluation of CMN for Mel-LPC based Speech Recognition in Different Noisy Environments

This study is intended to develop a noise robust distributed speech recognizer for real-world applications by employing Cepstral Mean Normalization (CMN) for robust feature extraction. The main focus of the work is to cope with different noisy environments. To realize this objective, MelLP based speech analysis has been used in speech coding on the linear frequency scale by applying a first-order all-pass filter instead of a unit delay. Mismatch between training and test phases is reduced through robust feature extraction by applying CMN on Mel-LP cepstral coefficients as an effort to reduce additive noise and channel distortion. The performance of the proposed system has been evaluated on test set A of Aurora-2 database which is a subset of TIDigits database contaminated by additive noises and channel effects. The experiment is conducted on four different noisy environments and the baseline performance, that is, for Mel-LPC the average word accuracy has found to be 59.05%. By applying the CMN on Mel-LP cepstral coefficients, the performance has been improved to 68.02%. It is found that CMN performs significantly better for different noisy environments.

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