A Study of Speech Feature Extraction Based on Manifold Learning

Abstract

Manifold learning is a nonlinear data dimension reduction method. It can look for the essence of things from the observed phenomena, and find the inherent law of data. Traditional MFCC feature will lead a slower learning speed on account of it has high dimension and useless noise. Therefore, a speech feature extraction method based on manifold learning is proposed. Firstly, we use the manifold learning dimension reduction algorithm for the dimension reduction of Mel features and then for vowels classification. In order to further demonstrate the effectiveness of manifold learning feature in speech recognition, we propose a fusion speech feature extraction method and apply it to the identification of Chinese isolated words. Experiments prove that the fusion feature extraction method has achieved a better result than that of traditional MFCC feature extraction method.