A Wavelet based Feature Extraction for Voice-Lock systems

A Main Project Report Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement For the award of the degree of

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
In

ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

Of

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, ANANTAPUR

By

S.RANGA MAHESH REDDY P.KRANTHI KUMAR REDDY MAREDDY GOWTHAM S.MD.ABID

(08AT1A0449) (08AT1A0434) (08AT1A0428) (08AT1A0421)

Under the Guidance of

Dr. S.Nagaraja Rao

M.Tech, Ph.D.

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

G.PULLAIAH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

PASUPALA (V), KURNOOL-518002 (A.P) 2011-2012

ABSTRACT
In an approach to provide more secure, fast and efficient speaker verification system ("voice lock system"), this paper reviews the fast wavelet feature extraction technique and wavelet packet technique for speech recognition systems. One of the biggest advantages of the wavelet transform over the short time Fourier transform(STFT) is its capability to process non-stationary signals. As the prosodic features of speech signals in the voice lock systems play an important role, these features have to be extracted with great accuracy, which are efficiently extracted using the wavelet packets which provide the local timespectral description.

The adaptive frame synchronization method intelligently classifies these wavelet packets such that all the prosodic features are extracted efficiently. The paper also talks about the problems with the HMM systems in view of the security of the ASR systems.