On Compensating the Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients for Noisy Speech Recognition

Choi, E.H.C.

This paper describes a novel noise-robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) front-end that employs a combination of Mel-filterbank output compensation and cumulative distribution mapping of cepstral coefficients with truncated Gaussian distribution. Recognition experiments on the Aurora II connected digits database reveal that the proposed front-end achieves an average digit recognition accuracy of 84.92% for a model set trained from clean speech data. Compared with the ETSI standard Mel-cepstral front-end, the proposed front-end is found to obtain a relative error rate reduction of around 61%. Moreover, the proposed front-end can provide comparable recognition accuracy with the ETSI advanced front-end, at less than half the computation load.

Cite as: Choi, E.H.C. (2006). On Compensating the Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients for Noisy Speech Recognition. In Proc. Twenty-Ninth Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 2006), Hobart, Australia. CRPIT, 48. Estivill-Castro, V. and Dobbie, G., Eds. ACS. 49-54.

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