Audio and Speech Processing Microproject

Submitted by:
Shubham Mittal
Roll no.101306160
Shubham Jindal
Roll no.101306159

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Speech Recognition using MATLAB

What is Speech Recognition?

Speech recognition can be defined as the independent, computer driven

transcription of spoken language into readable text in real time. In a
nutshell, SR is technology that allows a computer to identify the words
that a person speaks into a microphone or telephone.

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Having a machine to understand fluently spoken speech has driven

speech research for more than 50 years. Although SR technology is
not yet at the point where machines understand all speech, in any
acoustic environment, or by any person, it is used on a day to day basis
in a number of applications and services.

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What are the applications of Speech Recognition?

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In-car system: like gps navigation and voice controlled mobile etc.
Military use: helicopters, stealth fighter planes etc.
Education
Automatic translation
Robotics
Interactive voice response: like Siri or Cortana
Hands-free computing
Health: for physically disabled persons
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Approach?

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There are numerous ways in which we can make a speech recognition

system. But in this approach we utilise the amplitude of speech signals.
First we have a sample sound of a word(Hello) which we read in
MATLAB using waveread. Then we record a new voice in realtime
and then compare the amplitudes of both in order to decide which
word is spoken by the speaker.
In order to accomplish this we have taken a threshold value by hit and
trial of numerous samples and we take the difference of the maximum
amplitude and minimum amplitude above this threshold.

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Thankyou

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