Automated English Speech Recognition Using Dimensionality Reduction with Deep Learning Approach

Abstract

Speech recognition technology is a multidisciplinary field, comprising signal processing, pattern recognition, acoustics, artificial intelligence, etc. Presently, speech recognition plays a vital role in human-computer interface in information technology. Due to the advancements of deep learning (DL) models, speech recognition system has received significant attention among researchers in several areas of speech recognition like mobile communication, voice recognition, and personal digital assistance. This paper presents an automated English speech recognition using dimensionality reduction and deep learning (AESR-DRDL) approach. The proposed AESR-DRDL technique involves a series of operations, namely, feature extraction, preprocessing, dimensionality reduction, and speech recognition. During feature extraction process, a hybridization of high-dimension rich feature vectors is derived from the speech as well as glottal-waveform signals by the use of MFCC, PLPC, and MVDR techniques. Besides, the high dimensionality of features can be reduced by the design of quasioppositional poor and rich optimization algorithm (QOPROA). Moreover, the Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) technique is employed for speech recognition, and the optimal hyperparameter tuning of the Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory technique can be chosen using Adagrad optimizer. For the dimensionality reduction technique, the quasioppositional poor and rich optimization algorithm (QOPROA) is applied. The performance validation of the AESR-DRDL technique is carried out against benchmark datasets, and the results reported the better performance of the AESR-DRDL technique compared to recent approaches. The AESR-DRDL technique has shown to be superior in terms of recovery time, with an average of 0.50 days. The AESR-DRDL method's overall performance has been validated using benchmark datasets, and the results show that it outperforms more current technique. Because of this, the AESR-DRDL approach can be used to recognize English speech.