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Hybrid Approach for Analyzing Acute Spots of Clinical Speech Data Using Fuzzy Inference System

Hybrid Approach for Analyzing Acute Spots of Clinical Speech Data Using Fuzzy Inference System

C. R. Bharathi (VelTech University, India) and V. Shanthi (St. Joseph's College of Engineering, India)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 45
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-7240-6.ch005
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Abstract

Acoustical measures of vocal functions are used in the assessments of voice disorders and monitoring the subject's improvement with speech therapy. In this chapter, a hybrid approach is proposed to identify the acute spots in pathological speech signals. These spots represents where the speech disorder occurs. The speech training for that specific portion of speech in particular could be given for enhancing the speeches. Dimensionality reduction is done using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) on Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients (MFCC) extracted. By statistical method it is proved that overall 91.60% of the words were classified correctly. The features were trained using Support Vector Machines (SVM) for categorizing normally and abnormally pronounced words. The peaks found by Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) in abnormal words is made use of in the Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) for finding the acute spots in which the aberration has occurred in the word. This hybrid approach was found to have around 98% accuracy.
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Introduction

Speech sounds are sensations of air pressure vibrations produced by air exhaled from the lungs and modulated and shaped by the vibrations of the glottal cords and the resonance of the vocal tract as the air is pushed out through the lips and nose. Speech is an immensely information-rich signal exploiting frequency-modulated, amplitude-modulated and time-modulated carriers (e.g. resonance movements, harmonics and noise, pitch intonation, power, duration) to convey information about words, speaker identity, accent, expression, style of speech, emotion and the state of health of the speaker (http://www.westutter.org/what-is-stuttering/stuttering-info/)

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