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Application of Proposed Phoneme Segmentation Technique for Speaker Identification

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Phoneme-Based Speech Segmentation using Hybrid Soft Computing Framework

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This chapter presents a neural model for speaker identification using speaker-specific information extracted from vowel sounds. The vowel sound is segmented out from words spoken by the speaker to be identified. Vowel sounds occur in a speech more frequently and with higher energy. Therefore, situations where acoustic information is noise corrupted, vowel sounds can be used to extract different amounts of speaker discriminative information. The model explained here uses a neural framework formed with PNN and LVQ where the proposed SOM-based vowel segmentation technique is used. The work extracts glottal source information of the speakers initially using LP residual. Later, empirical-mode decomposition (EMD) of the speech signal is performed to extract the residual. Depending on these residual features a LVQ-based speaker code book is formed. The work shows the use of residual signal obtained from EMD of speech as a speaker discriminative feature. The neural approach of speaker identification gives superior performance in comparison with the conventional statistical approach like hidden Markov models (HMMs), Gaussian mixture models (GMMs), etc. found in the literature. Although the proposed model has been experimented in case of the speakers of Assamese language, it shall also be suitable for other Indian languages for which the speaker database should contain samples of that specific language.

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Sarma, M., Sarma, K.K. (2014). Application of Proposed Phoneme Segmentation Technique for Speaker Identification. In: Phoneme-Based Speech Segmentation using Hybrid Soft Computing Framework. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 550. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1862-3_9

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