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Towards capturing fine phonetic variation in speech using articulatory features

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Scharenborg, O., Wan, V., & Moore, R. K. (2007). Towards capturing fine phonetic variation in speech using articulatory features. Speech Communication, 49, 811-826. doi:10.1016/j.specom.2007.01.005.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0012-D1C8-F
Abstract
The ultimate goal of our research is to develop a computational model of human speech recognition that is able to capture the effects of fine-grained acoustic variation on speech recognition behaviour. As part of this work we are investigating automatic feature classifiers that are able to create reliable and accurate transcriptions of the articulatory behaviour encoded in the acoustic speech signal. In the experiments reported here, we analysed the classification results from support vector machines (SVMs) and multilayer perceptrons (MLPs). MLPs have been widely and successfully used for the task of multi-value articulatory feature classification, while (to the best of our knowledge) SVMs have not. This paper compares the performance of the two classifiers and analyses the results in order to better understand the articulatory representations. It was found that the SVMs outperformed the MLPs for five out of the seven articulatory feature classes we investigated while using only 8.8–44.2% of the training material used for training the MLPs. The structure in the misclassifications of the SVMs and MLPs suggested that there might be a mismatch between the characteristics of the classification systems and the characteristics of the description of the AF values themselves. The analyses showed that some of the misclassified features are inherently confusable given the acoustic space. We concluded that in order to come to a feature set that can be used for a reliable and accurate automatic description of the speech signal; it could be beneficial to move away from quantised representations.