Computing Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (2001)
| Venue: | Proc. Int. Conf. on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Power01computingmel-frequency,
author = {On The Power and Sirko Molau and Michael Pitz and Ralf Schlüter and Hermann Ney},
title = {Computing Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients},
booktitle = {Proc. Int. Conf. on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing},
year = {2001},
pages = {73--76}
}
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Abstract
In this paper we present a method to derive Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients directly from the power spectrum of a speech signal. We show that omitting the filterbank in signal analysis does not affect the word error rate. The presented approach simplifies the speech recognizer's front end by merging subsequent signal analysis steps into a single one. It avoids possible interpolation and discretization problems and results in a compact implementation. We show that frequency warping schemes like vocal tract normalization (VTN) can be integrated easily in our concept without additional computational efforts. Recognition test results obtained with the RWTH large vocabulary speech recognition system are presented for two different corpora: The German VerbMobil II dev99 corpus, and the English North American Business News 94 20k development corpus.
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