Performance comparison of ASR classifiers for the development of an English CAPT system for Filipino students

College

College of Computer Studies

Department/Unit

Computer Technology

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source Title

IEEE Region 10 Annual International Conference, Proceedings/TENCON

Publication Date

12-1-2012

Abstract

Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) systems aim to provide immediate, individualized feedback to the user on the overall quality of the pronunciation made. In such systems, one must be able to extract features from a waveform and represent words in the vocabulary. This paper presents the performance of Hidden Markov Model (HMM), Support-Vector Machine (SVM) and Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) as automatic speech recognizers for the English digits spoken by Filipino speakers. Speech waveforms are translated into a set of feature vectors using Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients (MFCC). The training set consists of speech samples recorded by native Filipinos who speak English. The HMM-trained model produced a recognition rate of 95.79% compared to 86.33% and 91.66% recognition rates of SVM and MLP, respectively. 1 © 2012 IEEE.

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1109/TENCON.2012.6412252

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Hidden Markov models

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