Title: Support vector machine-based stuttering dysfluency classification using GMM supervectors

Authors: P. Mahesha; D.S. Vinod

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, S.J. College of Engineering, Mysore, Karnataka, India ' Department of Information Science and Engineering, S.J. College of Engineering, Mysore, Karnataka, India

Abstract: It is generally acknowledged that recognition and classification of dysfluencies are an important criterion in the objective and accurate assessment of stuttered speech. For this reason, there is a growing interest in the application of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology to automate the dysfluency recognition. In this perspective, several studies have been carried out on the classification of dysfluencies by means of acoustic analysis, parametric and non-parametric feature extraction and statistical methods. This work is focused on introducing and evaluating Support Vector Machine (SVM) based dysfluency recognition system using a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) supervector. The experimental evaluation of the proposed system reveals that an SVM-based GMM supervector is effective for dysfluency classification. We have obtained substantial improvements in the performance by considering cepstral and their delta features.

Keywords: GMM supervectors; Gaussian mixture model; SVM; support vector machines; stuttering dysfluency; cepstral; stuttered speech; automatic speech recognition; ASR technology; dysfluency recognition; dysfluencies; dysfluency classification.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGUC.2015.070680

International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, 2015 Vol.6 No.3/4, pp.143 - 149

Received: 22 Jul 2014
Accepted: 21 Aug 2014

Published online: 18 Jul 2015 *

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