Speech Recognition Algorithm Based on Empirical Mode Decomposition and RBF Neural Network

Abstract

This paper presents a novel method of the speech recognition in combining the empirical mode decomposition with radical basis function neural network. Speech signals which pretreated are decomposed by empirical mode decomposition to get a set of intrinsic mode functions. It extracts mel frequency cepstrum coefficient from intrinsic mode function. Features parameters are made up of the coefficients. For BP Neural Network, RBF Neural Network has advantages on approximating ability and learning speed. So using RBF Neural Network as a recognition model is a good method. Experiments show that this new method has good robustness and adaptability. The speech recognition rate of this method reach ninety-one percents accurately under no noise environment. Speech signal recognition is feasible and effective in noisy environment.