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In this work, we propose new features for the GMM based spoken language identification system. A two stage approach is followed for extraction of the proposed new features. MFCCs and formants are extracted from huge corpus of all languages under consideration. In the first phase, MFCCs and formants are concatenated to form the feature vector. K clusters are formed from these feature vectors and one Gaussian is designed for each cluster. In the second phase, these feature vectors are evaluated against each of the K Gaussians and the returned K probabilities are considered as the elements of the proposed new feature vector, thus forming a K-element new feature vector. This proposed method for deriving new feature vector is common for both training and testing phases. In the training phase, K-element feature vectors are generated from the language specific speech corpus and language specific GMMs are trained. In testing phase, similar procedure is followed for extraction of K-element feature vector from unknown speech utterance and evaluated against language specific GMMs. Usefulness, the language specific apriori knowledge is used for further improvement of recognition performance. The experiments are carried out on OGI database and the LID performance is nearly 100%.
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Manchala, S., Prasad, V.K. (2013). GMM Based Language Identification System Using Robust Features. In: Železný, M., Habernal, I., Ronzhin, A. (eds) Speech and Computer. SPECOM 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8113. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01931-4_21
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