• DocumentCode
    677135
  • Title

    Performance analysis of wavelet transform for unspoken words

  • Author

    Saini, Mukesh K. ; Saini, J.S. ; Neeraj

  • Author_Institution
    Electr. Eng. Dept., Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Murthal, India
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    12-14 Dec. 2013
  • Firstpage
    256
  • Lastpage
    260
  • Abstract
    This paper aims to identify unspoken words using facial muscle activity without audible signal. A novel approach of wavelet analysis using different filter coefficients and the performance analysis of each filter coefficients along with classifiers is introduced. The technique is successfully used to classify 5 vowels, month name, weekdays and is not sensitive to the variation in speed and the speaking style of the different subjects and is used as recognition variables to recognize the unspoken words. This is an efficient technique that measures the relative muscle activity of the articulatory facial muscles and it is shown that former systems go through austere performance degradation when new words are acquainted. Using wavelet, word error rate and classification rate achieve a noteworthy success. This paper presents wavelet analysis of surface electromyogram (SEMG) of four facial muscles to decompose the signal and identify the words and classifying these words by three wavelets. Using three filter coefficients of Daubechies, Coiflets and Symlets, the unspoken word has been recognized. This represents the proportional muscle activity of the four muscles. These are classified using k-nearest neighbor, probabilistic neural network and support vector machine to identify the speech. It is urged that such applied science may be used for the user to give simple voiceless commands when conditioned for the specific user.
  • Keywords
    electromyography; filtering theory; medical signal processing; neural nets; speech recognition; support vector machines; wavelet transforms; Coiflets filter; Daubechies filter; SEMG; Symlets filter; articulatory facial muscles; austere performance degradation; classification rate; facial muscle activity; filter coefficients; k-nearest neighbor; performance analysis; probabilistic neural network; recognition variables; relative muscle activity; support vector machine; surface electromyogram; unspoken word recognition; wavelet transform; word error rate; Electrodes; Electromyography; Feature extraction; Speech; Speech recognition; Support vector machines; Wavelet transforms; SEMG; Speech signal; Wavelet transform;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Signal Processing and Communication (ICSC), 2013 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Noida
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-1605-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICSPCom.2013.6719793
  • Filename
    6719793