Automatic speech recognition for dysphonic patients by using oriented local features

Zulfiqar Ali, Ghulam Muhammad, Mansour Alsulaiman, Irraivan Elamvazuthi, Khalid Al-Mutib

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Abstract

The number of patients with voice pathology has increased significantly in recent years. The disability or illness of a person should not deprive him from taking benefits of the technology advances that is changing the daily life. For example, modern day speech recognition technology should be capable to recognize a speech from a normal person as well as a person having dysphonic. In this paper, we propose a new speech feature to use in automatic speech recognition system of disordered speech. We compare the performance of this feature with the most widely used speech feature in speech recognition. The comparison is done using spoken words uttered by both normal and dysphonic patients. The obtained results with the proposed technique are good and comparable to the existing method. Copyright ISCA, CAINE 2014.

Original languageEnglish
Pages269-274
Number of pages6
Publication statusPublished (in print/issue) - 1 Jan 2014
Event27th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, CAINE 2014 - New Orleans, United States
Duration: 13 Oct 201415 Oct 2014

Conference

Conference27th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, CAINE 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew Orleans
Period13/10/1415/10/14

Keywords

  • Arabic digits
  • Automatic speech recognition
  • HMM
  • MFCC
  • Vocal fold disorders

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