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Whispered speech recognition based on gammatone filterbank cepstral coefficients

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This paper presents the results on whispered speech recognition using gammatone filterbank cepstral coefficients for speaker dependent mode. The isolated words used for this experiment are taken from the Whi-Spe database. Whispered speech recognition is based on dynamic time warping and hidden Markov models methods. The experiments are focused on the following modes: normal speech, whispered speech and their combinations (normal/whispered and whispered/normal). The results demonstrated an important improvement in recognition after application of cepstral mean subtraction, especially in mixed train/test scenarios.

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  1. Telecommunication Department, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, 11000, Serbia

    B. Marković, J. Galić, Ð. Grozdić, S. T. Jovičić & M. Mijić

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Marković, B., Galić, J., Grozdić, Ð. et al. Whispered speech recognition based on gammatone filterbank cepstral coefficients. J. Commun. Technol. Electron. 62, 1255–1261 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064226917110134

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