Volume 12, Number 5

Qualitative Analysis of PLP in LSTM for Bangla Speech Recognition

  Authors

Nahyan Al Mahmud¹ and Shahfida Amjad Munni², ¹Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh, ²Cygnus Innovation Limited, Bangladesh

  Abstract

The performance of various acoustic feature extraction methods has been compared in this work using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural network in a Bangla speech recognition system. The acoustic features are a series of vectors that represents the speech signals. They can be classified in either words or sub word units such as phonemes. In this work, at first linear predictive coding (LPC) is used as acoustic vector extraction technique. LPC has been chosen due to its widespread popularity. Then other vector extraction techniques like Mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) and perceptual linear prediction (PLP) have also been used. These two methods closely resemble the human auditory system. These feature vectors are then trained using the LSTM neural network. Then the obtained models of different phonemes are compared with different statistical tools namely Bhattacharyya Distance and Mahalanobis Distance to investigate the nature of those acoustic features.

  Keywords

LSTM, Perceptual linear prediction, Mel frequency cepstral coefficients, Bhattacharyya Distance, Mahalanobis Distance.