An acoustic-phonetic feature-based system for the automatic recognition of fricative consonants
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In this paper, the acoustic-phonetic characteristics and the automatic recognition of the American English fricatives are investigated. The acoustic features that exist in the literature are evaluated and new features are proposed. To test the value of the extracted features, a knowledge-based acoustic-phonetic system for the automatic recognition of fricatives, in speaker independent continuous speech, is proposed. The system uses an auditory-based front-end processing and incorporates new algorithms for the extraction and manipulation of the acousticphonetic features that proved to be rich in their information content. Several features, which describe the relative amplitude, location of the most dominant peak, spectral shape and duration of unvoiced portion, are combined in the recognition process. Recognition accuracy of 95% for voicing detection and 93% for place of articulation detection are obtained for TIMIT database continuous speech of 22 speakers from 5 different dialect regions.
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