Phonetic segmentation: unsupervised approach

dc.accession.numberT00417
dc.classification.ddc621.3819598 VAC
dc.contributor.advisorPatil, Hemant A.
dc.contributor.authorVachhani, Bhavikkumar Bhagvanbhai
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-10T14:40:57Z
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-28T10:22:04Z
dc.date.available2017-06-10T14:40:57Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.degreeM. Tech
dc.description.abstractPhonetic segmentation can find its potential application for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) Synthesis systems. In this thesis, we propose use of different spectral features viz., Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC), Cochlear Filter Cepstral Coefficients (CFCC) and Perceptual Linear Prediction Cepstral Coefficients (PLPCC)-based features to detect spectral transition measure (STM) for automatic phonetic boundaries. We propose a new unsupervised algorithm by combining evidences from state-of-the-art Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) and proposed CFCC to improve the accuracy in automatic phonetic boundaries detection process. Using proposed fusion-based approach, we achieve 90 % (i.e., 8 % better than MFCC-based STM alone for 20 ms tolerance interval) accuracy for automatic boundary detection of entire TIMIT database. Using proposed PLPCC-base STM approach, we achieve 85 % (i.e., 3 % better than state-of the art Mel- frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC)-based STM for 20 ms tolerance interval) accuracy and 15 % over-segmentation rate (i.e., 8 % less than MFCC-based STM) for automatic boundary detection of 2, 34, 925 phone boundaries corresponding 630 speakers of entire TIMIT database. The second part of the thesis is focusing on development of various applications using automatically segmented and labeled boundaries.
dc.identifier.citationVachhani, Bhavikkumar Bhagvanbhai (2013). Phonetic segmentation : unsupervised approach. Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, xv, 89 p. (Acc.No: T00417)
dc.identifier.urihttp://drsr.daiict.ac.in/handle/123456789/454
dc.publisherDhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology
dc.student.id201111042
dc.subjectSignal processing
dc.subjectAutomatic speech recognition
dc.subjectSpeech processing systems
dc.subjectSpeech synthesis
dc.titlePhonetic segmentation: unsupervised approach
dc.typeDissertation

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