A study of speech recognition system based on the Hidden Markov Model with Gaussian-Mixture

Abstract

In this paper, we present a study of isolated word speech recognition system. The adopted system is based on the Hidden Markov Model with Gaussian Mixture (HMM-GM). We studied the recognition rate by varying the states number (3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 states) and the number of Gaussians per state (2, 4, 8, 12, 14 and 16 Gaussians) of Hidden Markov Model. We evaluated these recognition rates using two parameterization techniques Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) and Perceptual Linear Prediction (PLP). We have introduced the dynamic coefficients and the energy of the signal in order to achieve an improvement in the recognition rate.