Analysis and Recognition of Dialects of Hindi Speech

Shweta Sinha¹

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Isroset-Journal
Vol.3 , Issue.5 , pp.1-5, Sep-2015

Online published on Dec 11, 2015

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Abstract :
Every Individual has some unique speaking style that influences his/her speech characteristics. A major reason for this variability is caused by speaker’s accent due to his native dialect. Prior knowledge of speaker’s accent can help improve the performance of any speech recognizer. In this study, the problem of dialect classification of the spoken utterances in Hindi is considered. A database of four Hindi dialects; Khariboli, Bhojpuri, Haryanvi and Bagheli is created. Six hundred isolated words from Indian travel domain are recorded from 12 male and 8 female speakers of each dialect. In total, forty eight thousand utterances are taken into consideration. Spectral and prosodic features of C1VC2 syllable structure are extracted. Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients are computed as spectral feature. Vowel characteristics are measured in terms of formant frequency and duration. These features of different dialects are compared and analyzed with respect to Khariboli, the standard Hindi dialect. Sequence of fundamental frequency is evaluated to study the acoustic features associated with lexical tone. A multi layer feed forward neural network is implemented to show the sufficiency of these features for dialect classification. Experimental results shows that spectral and prosodic features combined together can give 82% recognition of dialect.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Dialect Recognition, Feature Analysis, Spectral and Prosodic Feature

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