Robust speech recognition system using bidirectional Kalman filter

Yeh Huann Goh; Paramesran Raveendran; Yann Ling Goh

Robust speech recognition system using bidirectional Kalman filter

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Author(s): Yeh Huann Goh ¹ ; Paramesran Raveendran ¹ ; Yann Ling Goh ^{1, 2}
- Affiliations: 1: Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Lembah Pantai, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;
  2: Department of Mathematical and Actuarial Sciences, Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Jalan Sungai Long, Bandar Sungai Long, Cheras, 43000 Kajang, Malaysia
Source: Volume 9, Issue 6, August 2015, p. 491 – 497
DOI: 10.1049/iet-spr.2014.0109 , Print ISSN 1751-9675, Online ISSN 1751-9683

Received 31/10/2013, Accepted 24/04/2015, Revised 13/07/2014, Published 28/07/2015

Kalman filter is normally used to enhance speech quality in a noisy environment, in which the speech signals are usually modelled as autoregressive (AR) process, and represented in the state-space domain. It is a known fact that to identify the changing AR coefficients in every time state requires extensive computation. In this paper, the authors develop a bidirectional Kalman filter and apply it in a speech processing system. The proposed filter uses a system dynamics model that utilises the past and the future measurements to form an estimate of the system's current time state. It provides efficient recursive means to estimate the state of a process that minimises the mean of the squared error. Compared to the conventional Kalman filter, the proposed filter reduces the computation time in two ways: (i) by avoiding the computation of AR parameters in each time state, and (ii) by reducing the dimension of the matrices involved in the difference equations and the measurement equations into constant (1 × 1) matrices. The speech recognition result shows that the developed speech recognition system becomes more robust after the proposed filtering process, and the proposed filter's low computational expense makes it applicable in the practical hidden Markov model-based speech recognition system.

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