Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
DOI
10.3906/elk-1901-231
Abstract
The feature extraction process is a fundamental part of speech processing. Mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) are the most commonly used feature types in the speech/speaker recognition literature. However, the MFCC framework may face numerical issues or dynamic range problems, which decreases their performance. A practical solution to these problems is adding a constant to filter-bank magnitudes before log compression, thus violating the scale-invariant property. In this work, a magnitude normalization and a multiplication constant are introduced to make the MFCCs scale-invariant and to avoid dynamic range expansion of nonspeech frames. Speaker verification experiments are conducted to show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.
Keywords
Feature extraction, speaker recognition, speech recognition
First Page
3758
Last Page
3762
Recommended Citation
TÜFEKCİ, ZEKERİYA and DİŞKEN, GÖKAY
(2019)
"Scale-invariant MFCCs for speech/speaker recognition,"
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences: Vol. 27:
No.
5, Article 34.
https://doi.org/10.3906/elk-1901-231
Available at:
https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/elektrik/vol27/iss5/34
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