Title
Neural network based digit recognition system for voice dialing in noisy environments
Abstract
During this decade voice dialling has became a potential feature to be implemented, e.g., in the mobile phones, but the techniques still suffer from defects of current algorithms when a real background noise is present. In this paper, a hybrid speech recognition system is discussed considering both speaker-independent isolated and connected digit recognition in adverse conditions. Specifically, the recognition system consists of one or more multilayer perceptron networks (MLP) and hidden Markov models (HMM), which were trained using minimum classification error (MCE) method or embedded Viterbi (EV) training. The goal of the paper is to compare the performances of these two algorithms and study whether some advantage is gained in the MCE training by using a novel cost function, which puts more weight on the misclassified training samples than the conventional cost function (sigmoidal). The performance comparisons were made with a data set recorded in car in three different noise environments. The hybrid recognition system yield 98.18% and 74.45% accuracies for the isolated and the connected digits, respectively. The gradient equations are also derived for the MCE training considering multiple MLPs and the novel cost function in the recognizer structure. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1016/S0020-0255(99)00077-8
Inf. Sci.
Keywords
Field
DocType
noisy environment,neural network,voice dialing,digit recognition system,multilayer perceptron,speech recognition,cost function,hidden markov model
Background noise,Multilayer perceptron,Artificial intelligence,Digit recognition,Artificial neural network,Viterbi algorithm,Sigmoid function,Pattern recognition,Recognition system,Speech recognition,Hidden Markov model,Machine learning,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
121
3-4
0020-0255
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
30
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Petri Salmela1174.71
M Lehtokangas215821.87
Jukka Saarinen326446.21