Spectral Signal Processing for ASR

The paper begins by discussing the difficulties in obtaining repeatable results in speech recognition. Theoretical arguments are presented for and against copying human auditory properties in automatic speech recognition. The “standard” acoustic analysis for automatic speech recognition, consisting of melscale cepstrum coefficients and their temporal derivatives, is described. Some variations and extensions of the standard analysis — PLP, cepstrum correlation methods, LDA, and variants on log power — are then discussed. These techniques pass the test of having been found useful at multiple sites, especially with noisy speech. The extent to which auditory properties can account for the advantage found for particular techniques is considered. It is concluded that the advantages do not in fact stem from auditory properties, and that there is so far little or no evidence that the study of the human auditory system has contributed to advances in automatic speech recognition. Contributions in the future are not, however, ruled out.

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