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Speech recognition is the process of converting the spoken word to text, usually without regard to a particular speaker (which is more commonly referred to as "voice recognition").

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how does this equation correspond to smoothing?

Please help me understand smoothing of data. This is a follow up to my previous question posted here. Especially the top answer by Junuxx where he says a way of smoothing a function $f(x)$ is: $$ f'[...
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Using HMM for speech recognition

I'm trying to understand how speech recognition works, when using HMM. I know this post is very long, but that's mainly because I'm a complete beginner, and I since I have no idea what is clear and ...
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What's the correct graphical interpretation of a series of MFCC vectors?

I'm studying speech-recognition, in particular the use of MFCC for feature extraction. All examples I've found online tend to graph a series of MFCC extracted from a particular utterance as follows (...
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Speech recognition using MFCC and DTW(Dynamic Time Warping)?

I know basics about DSP, and now trying to complete a project on Speech recognition. So I read as many resources as I found, and got some ideas. They are like: take a sample sound and break it into ...
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Remove a known wav file from recorded file

I looked at many similar questions but still cannot find an answer to my problem. I'm playing an audio file N, while recording a man talking (b). The problem is that the microphone gets the played ...
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Is there any free software that can recognize and classify sounds?

i am making a smart home automation software and i would like to know if there is any software that can recognize noises such as speech ,playing music,phone ringing etc The exact software i am looking ...
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What is best practice to remove static noise?

What is best practice/algorithms to remove static noise from speech ? static noise aka Stationary Signal/static noise due to 1.humming sound due to of telephonic line/channel, 2.moving Vehicle,or ...
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Using MFCC to an ANN Speech Recognition System

I'm developing an Artificial Neural Network based Speech Recognition System using MFCCs. Suppose I have 260 input nodes in the ANN, and this number of nodes corresponds to the number of MFCCs that I ...
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Using MFCC in spoken words recognition

We're trying to implement a "simple" speech recognition application in MATLAB (isolated words from a very limited dictionary). We've been trying the following methods: Extract MFCC coefficients for ...
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Continuous speech recognition with HMM

I don't understand how this works. Help would be really appreciated. Let's say we have a 10 second sound input, we make a feature vector every 10ms - so we have 1000 vectors - $\mathbf{o}=o_1, \cdots,...
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Hidden Markov Models - Distinct Observation Symbols

I really, really hope someone can help me with regards to this question. I'm trying to implement a Hidden Markov Model (based off this paper: Here I understand the processes, but, I do not ...
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Speech Activity Detection- Adhoc Problem with multi source sounds(birds,trees,heavy air) and how to eliminate them completely

Here i will first try to put my application agenda Typically i am sampling at 8Khz rate and filtering speech components using a BPF(digital) now i have got the 0-4Khz components in which ...
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Using k Nearest Neighbour & Dynamic Time Warping for keyword spotting

As stated in the title, I am currently researching a method using k-NN, specifically, as either an alternative or as a supplement to the DTW algorithm in keyword spotting based on MFCC. I have read ...
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Good methods for hardware based 1-2 word speaker independent speech recognition?

I want to detect, in real-time, a 1-2 word spoken phrase within continuous speech, speaker independently, in hardware. The smaller the number of gates the better. What is the best way to do this? Are ...
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Initial state recognition in HMM

I am building a speech recognition system using Hidden Markov Model in python. I referred to this and this question and its answers, which were very helpful. In my approach, I split the continuous ...