| Abstract: | In this research, a new speech recognition method based on improved feature extraction and improved support vector machine (ISVM) is developed. A Gaussian filter is used to denoise the input speech signal. The feature extraction method extracts five features such as peak values, Mel frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC), tri-spectral features, discrete wavelet transform (DWT), and the difference values between the input and the standard signal. Next, these features are scaled using linear identical scaling (LIS) method with the same scaling method and the same scaling factors for each set of features in both training and testing phases. Following this, to accomplish the training process, an ISVM is developed with best fitness validation. The ISVM consists of two stages: (i) linear dual classifier that finds the same class attributes and different class attributes simultaneously and (ii) cross fitness validation (CFV) method to prevent over fitting problem. The proposed speech recognition method offers 98.2% accuracy. |
