Compact Representation of Speech Using 2-D Cepstrum – An Application to Slovak Digits Recognition

HMM speech recogniser with a small number of acoustic observations based on 2-D cepstrum (TDC) is proposed. TDC represents both static and dynamic features of speech implicitly in matrix form. It is shown that TDC analysis enables a compact representation of speech signals. Thus a great advantage of the proposed model is a massive reduction of speech features used for recognition what lessens computational and memory requirements, so it may be favourable for limited-power ASR applications. Experiments on isolated Slovak digits recognition task show that the method gives comparable results as the conventional MFCC approach. For speech degraded by additive white noise, it reaches better performance than the MFCC method.