Statistical Descriptors of Mel-Bands Spectral Energy Features with Feature Reduction for Robust Accent Recognition in Malaysian English

To date, Malaysian English (MalE) accents arises from different ethnics of its populace are scarcely investigated using empirical methods that give a decisive conclusion to treat MalE as either uniform or non-uniform variety. The popularly used Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) and Linear Prediction Coefficients (LPC) as feature extractors fail to perform well under noisy conditions. This paper proposes two new methods and noise...