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This study introduces Gabor features for robust automatic speech recognition (ASR). These spectro-temporal modulation features improve ASR performance against noise and speaking variations.

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Area of Science:

  • Signal Processing
  • Acoustics
  • Machine Learning

Background:

  • Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems face challenges with robustness against noise and variations in speech.
  • Traditional features like Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) have limitations in handling these variations.
  • Physiologically inspired feature extraction can potentially enhance ASR system performance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel feature extraction scheme for ASR systems that incorporates spectro-temporal modulation frequencies (MF).
  • To evaluate the robustness of the proposed Gabor features against extrinsic (noise) and intrinsic (speaking style) variations.
  • To compare the performance of Gabor features against established ASR features like MFCCs and RASTA-PLP.

Main Methods:

  • A two-dimensional filter bank based on Gabor filters was employed for feature extraction.
  • The proposed Gabor features were tested in ASR experiments to quantify robustness against additive noise and speaking variability.
  • Performance was compared against baseline systems using MFCCs, MFCCs with cepstral mean subtraction (CMS), and RASTA-PLP features.

Main Results:

  • Gabor features demonstrated superior robustness against extrinsic variations compared to baseline systems without CMS, showing relative improvements of 28% and 16%.
  • Concatenating spectro-temporal Gabor features with MFCCs in a state-of-the-art system yielded a 14% performance improvement, indicating feature complementarity.
  • Analysis revealed that temporal MFs up to 25 Hz and spectral MFs up to 0.25 cycles/channel are most beneficial for ASR.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed Gabor feature extraction scheme significantly enhances the robustness of ASR systems.
  • Gabor features offer physically interpretable components and reduce redundancy, contributing to improved ASR performance.
  • Spectro-temporal modulation frequencies provide valuable information for ASR, especially when combined with traditional features.