Voice recognition: Where to start?

You can probably take a FUzzy approach, Fuzzy takes care of uncertainities in recognition. It will accomodate the fact that the sampled voice signal will be differnt every time. And this makes the system all the more difficult to design. So you can take desicions based on the closeness of match. If you know fuzzy logic, you will realize that the concept is quite close to the basic principle of fuzzy logic. Basically it allows an elemens to have partial membership in a set.

Say for instance, you go for Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) of the sampled voice signal. IT gives you the various spectral components of the voice signal. You can define input fuzzy sets like Ultra high frequency, Very High frequency, High frequency, Medium frequency, Slightyly low frequency, Low frequency ( Please note that voice signals will be restricted to 20 khz, so you will not need the UHF, HF, VHF sets, its just for the sale of demonstration 😁 ) to convert your i/p signals to fuzzy values.


Now The sampled signal will be assigned a membership grade in each of these sets, say 0.2 for HF, 0.6 for UHF etc. Now frame the fuzzy rules, they will decide how the fuzzy inference engine will decide wheteher the voice is a match or not. These rules willbe of If and Then form. The inputs will decide the firing strength of these rules. Say you have 8 rules, each of them fire, but with differing intensities. Use a defuzzification strategy like Center of Gravity, Mean of maxima method etc to get he final defuzzified o/p.

This is just a schematic of a generalised Fuzzy system (Mamdani type), there are other models like Sugeno, Tsukamoto. I have just tried to share my idea of system implementation. THis may be far from perfect.:smile:

Very informative answer mate. Can you please some more knowledge with us it will be very usefull to many ceans.

We have to use MATLAB for the processing. Am i right?

thanks for the information..😛

godfather

Very informative answer mate. Can you please some more knowledge with us it will be very usefull to many ceans.

We have to use MATLAB for the processing. Am i right?

Ya sure GODFATHER, I'm thinking of starting a thread on FUZZY logic. Ther isnt't any on CE. Ya MATLAB's fuzzy logic toolbox is the standard developement and test platform, i'd say, though I haven't worked with it.

divine, speech recognition will take a lot of time if you start from the scratch. Before you start you need to decide lot of things. Most importantly do you really want to get into the basics with all the signal processing, Neural networks,fuzzy, HMM model. Or do you just want the end application written using a speech library. A full fledged speech recognition system implementation is not a 4 month project.
If you are not comfortable with all the math, you better look for the end user application, use a backend speech library. This is