Recognition of repetition and prolongation in stuttered speech using ANN

Abstract

This paper mainly focuses on repetition and prolongation detection in stuttered speech signal. The acoustic and pitch related features like Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs), formants, pitch, zero crossing rate (ZCR) and Energy are used to test the effectiveness in recognizing repetitions and prolongations in stammered speech. Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) are used as classifier. The results are evaluated using combination of different features. The results show that the ANN classifier trained using MFCC features achieves an average accuracy of 87.39% for repetition and prolongation recognition.