Statistical formant descriptors with linear predictive coefficients for accent classification

Accent is a special trait of human speech that can deliver some information about a speaker's background. At the same time it is one of the profound factors that affects the intelligibility and performance of speech recognition systems (ASRs) if not delicately handled. Normally accent recognizer in the preceding stage offers subsystem training or adaptation strategy to improve the ASRs. Formant analysis is one of the effective techniques used to...