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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Acoustic Feature Comparison for Different Speaking Rates

Authors : Abdolreza Sabzi Shahrebabaki, Ali Shariq Imran, Negar Olfati, Torbjørn Svendsen

Published in: Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Technologies

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Abstract

This paper investigates the effect of speaking rate variation on the task of frame classification. This task is indicative of the performance on phoneme and word recognition and is a first step towards designing voice-controlled interfaces. Different speaking rates cause different dynamics. For example, speaking rate variations will cause changes both in formant frequencies and in their transition tracks. A word spoken at normal speed gets recognized more often than the same word spoken by the same speaker at a much faster or slower pace, or vice-versa. It is thus imperative to design interfaces which take into account different speaking variabilities. To better incorporate speaker variability into digital devices, we study the effect of (a) feature selection and (b) the choice of network architecture on variable speaking rates. Four different features are evaluated on multiple configurations of Deep Neural Network (DNN) architectures. The findings show that log Filter-Bank Energies (FBE) outperformed the other acoustic features not only on normal speaking rate but for slow and fast speaking rates as well.

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Metadata
Title
Acoustic Feature Comparison for Different Speaking Rates
Authors
Abdolreza Sabzi Shahrebabaki
Ali Shariq Imran
Negar Olfati
Torbjørn Svendsen
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Technologies

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-91249-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-91250-9

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91250-9_14