NDLI: Minimum Mean-Square Error Estimation of Mel-Frequency Cepstral Features

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Author	Jensen, J. Zheng-Hua Tan
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	In this work, we consider the problem of feature enhancement for noise-robust automatic speech recognition (ASR). We propose a method for minimum mean-square error (MMSE) estimation of mel-frequency cepstral features, which is based on a minimum number of well-established, theoretically consistent statistical assumptions. More specifically, the method belongs to the class of methods relying on the statistical framework proposed in Ephraim and Malah's original work (“Speech enhancement using a minimum mean-square error short-time spectral amplitude estimator,” IEEE Trans. Acoust., Speech, Signal Process., vol. ASSP-32, no. 6, 1984). The method is general in that it allows MMSE estimation of mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC's), cepstral-mean subtracted (CMS-) MFCC's, autoregressive-moving-average (ARMA)-filtered CMS-MFCC's, velocity, and acceleration coefficients. In addition, the method is easily modified to take into account other compressive non-linearities than the logarithm traditionally used for MFCC computation. In terms of MFCC estimation performance, as measured by MFCC mean-square error, the proposed method shows performance which is identical to or better than other state-of-the-art methods. In terms of ASR performance, no statistical difference could be found between the proposed method and the state-of-the-art methods. We conclude that existing state-of-the-art MFCC feature enhancement algorithms within this class of algorithms, while theoretically suboptimal or based on theoretically inconsistent assumptions, perform close to optimally in the MMSE sense.
Starting Page	186
Ending Page	197
Page Count	12
File Size	3006431
File Format	PDF
ISSN	23299290
Volume Number	23
Issue Number	1
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-01-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Speech Mel frequency cepstral coefficient Noise measurement Noise Estimation Mean square error methods minimum mean-square error (MMSE) estimation Robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) speech enhancement mel-frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Acoustics and Ultrasonics Signal Processing Instrumentation Speech and Hearing Electrical and Electronic Engineering Computational Mathematics Media Technology

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