A Novel Feature Extraction for Neural – based Modes in Acoustic-Articulatory Inversion Mapping
Hossein Behbood, Seyyed Ali Seyyedsalehi, Hamid Reza Tohidypour, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)
Acoustic-articulatory inversion mapping is a process that converts the signal of acoustic data to articulatory features. Most research focused on finding the best model for this mapping process but less attention on finding appropriate representation of articulatory and acoustic signals. This paper suggests two feature extraction methods, including Logarithm of square Hanning Critical Bank filterbank and Discrete Wavelet Transform that have better operation in contrast with conventional feature extraction based on Mel-Frequency Cepstral coefficients. For inversion mapping process an standard feed forward neural network is used. Appling a Time Delay Neural Network for phone recognition. The results show the efficiency of two new feature extraction methods.