Title
Acoustic echo cancellation using adaptive filtering algorithms for Quranic accents (Qiraat) identification
Abstract
Echoed parts of Quranic accent (Qiraat) signals are exposed to reverberation of signals especially if they are listened to in a conference room or the Quranic recordings found in different media such as the web. Quranic verse rules identification/Tajweed are prone to additive noise and may reduce classification results. This research work aims to present our work towards Quranic accents (Qiraat) identification, which emphasizes on acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) of all echoed Quranic signals during the preprocessing phase of the system development. In order to conduct the AEC, three adaptive algorithms known as affine projection (AP), least mean square (LMS), and recursive least squares (RLS) are used during the preprocessing phase. Once clean Quranic signals are produced, they undergo feature extraction and pattern classification phases. The Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients is the most widely used technique for feature extraction and is adopted in this research work, whereas probabilities principal component analysis (PPCA), K-nearest neighbor (KNN) and gaussian mixture model (GMM) are used for pattern classification. In order to verify our methodology, audio files have been collected for Surat Ad-Duhaa for five different Quranic accents (Qiraat), namely: (1) Ad-Duri, (2) Al-Kisaie, (3) Hafs an A'asem, (4) IbnWardan, and (5) Warsh. Based on our experimental results, the AP algorithm achieved 93.9 % accuracy rate against all pattern classification techniques including PPCA, KNN, and GMM. For LMS and RLS, the achieved accuracy rates are different for PPCA, KNN, and GMM, whereby LMS with PPCA and GMM achieved the same accuracy rate of 96.9 %; however, LMS with KNN achieved 84.8 %. In addition, RLS with PPCA and GMM achieved the same accuracy rate of 90.9 %; however, RLS with KNN achieved 78.8 %. Therefore, the AP adaptive algorithm is able to reduce the echo of Quranic accents (Qiraat) signals in a consistent manner against all pattern classification techniques.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/s10772-015-9319-z
I. J. Speech Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
Adaptive filtering, Acoustic echo cancellation, Recursive least squares, Least mean squares, Affine projection, K-nearest neighbor, Probabilities principal component analysis, Gaussian mixture model, Quranic accents (Qiraat)
Least mean squares filter,k-nearest neighbors algorithm,Mel-frequency cepstrum,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Speech recognition,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,Adaptive filter,Adaptive algorithm,Mixture model,Recursive least squares filter
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
2
1572-8110
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
13
Authors
5