Glottal Closure Instant Detection using Echo State Networks

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Abstract

The Time of Excitation (Tx) of speech, also widely known as the Glottal Closure Instants (GCI) denote the points in time at which the vocal folds close during the production of voiced speech. In this paper, we extend a previous approach based on a multilayer perceptron (MLP) using Echo State Networks (ESN), a variant of a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). We show that the MLP and ESN approaches lead to similar results. The ESN model performed better than the MLP when the latter used only a single input sample (0.86 vs 0.75 area under the ROC plot), whereas the MLP slightly outperformed the ESN (0.98 vs 0.97 area under the ROC plot) when its was provided with a sufficient number of surrounding speech samples.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationStudientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2021
EditorsStefan Hillmann, Benjamin Weiss, Thilo Michael, Sebastian Möller
Publisher Dresden : TUDpress
Pages161-168
Number of pages8
ISBN (print)978-3-959082-27-3
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2021
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0003-0167-8123/work/168716963
ORCID /0000-0002-8149-2275/work/168719849

Keywords

Keywords

  • Phonetik und Artikulation