Zied Hajaiej

Work place: Laboratory of Systems and Signal Processing (LSTS) BP 37, Le Belvédère, 1002 Tunis, Tunisie

E-mail: zied.hajaiej@enit.rnu.tn

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Research Interests: Speech Synthesis, Speech Recognition

Biography

Zied Hajaiej received the MS degree in electrical engineering (signal processing) in 2004, from Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis (ENIT), Tunisia. He is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering (signal processing) in ENIT. His research involved speech recognition. Since September 2006 he has been an Assistant in the Physics Department at Faculté des Sciences de Bizerte, Tunisia, where he teaches electronics, VHDL.

Author Articles
Robust Features for Speech Recognition using Temporal Filtering Technique in the Presence of Impulsive Noise

By Hajer Rahali Zied Hajaiej Noureddine Ellouze

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2014.11.03, Pub. Date: 8 Oct. 2014

In this paper we introduce a robust feature extractor, dubbed as Modified Function Cepstral Coefficients (MODFCC), based on gammachirp filterbank, Relative Spectral (RASTA) and Autoregressive Moving-Average (ARMA) filter. The goal of this work is to improve the robustness of speech recognition systems in additive noise and real-time reverberant environments. In speech recognition systems Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC), RASTA and ARMA Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (RASTA-MFCC and ARMA-MFCC) are the three main techniques used. It will be shown in this paper that it presents some modifications to the original MFCC method. In our work the effectiveness of proposed changes to MFCC were tested and compared against the original RASTA-MFCC and ARMA-MFCC features. The prosodic features such as jitter and shimmer are added to baseline spectral features. The above-mentioned techniques were tested with impulsive signals under various noisy conditions within AURORA databases.

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