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Accent Recognition for Indian English using Acoustic Feature Approach

by Santosh Gaikwad, Bharti Gawali, K. V. Kale
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 63 - Number 7
Year of Publication: 2013
Authors: Santosh Gaikwad, Bharti Gawali, K. V. Kale
10.5120/10479-5213

Santosh Gaikwad, Bharti Gawali, K. V. Kale . Accent Recognition for Indian English using Acoustic Feature Approach. International Journal of Computer Applications. 63, 7 ( February 2013), 25-32. DOI=10.5120/10479-5213

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author = { Santosh Gaikwad, Bharti Gawali, K. V. Kale },
title = { Accent Recognition for Indian English using Acoustic Feature Approach },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { February 2013 },
volume = { 63 },
number = { 7 },
month = { February },
year = { 2013 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 25-32 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume63/number7/10479-5213/ },
doi = { 10.5120/10479-5213 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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%A Bharti Gawali
%A K. V. Kale
%T Accent Recognition for Indian English using Acoustic Feature Approach
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
%@ 0975-8887
%V 63
%N 7
%P 25-32
%D 2013
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

Accent is the basic pattern of acoustic feature and pronunciation. It can identify the person's social and linguistic background. It is an important source of inter as well as intra speaker variability. The accent dependent dictionary or model can be used to improve accuracy of speech recognition system. In this study we present an experimental approach of acoustic speech feature for Marathi & Arabic accents for English speaking. The detail study of acoustics correlates the accent using formant frequency, energy and pitch characteristics. The database consists of speech from speaker with Marathi as their mother tongue and speakers from Iraq with Arabic language as mother tongue. Both the speakers were asked to speak English number from zero to nine. Through experimental results the fifth formant frequency found to be very effective for accent recognition.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Accent Acoustic Energy Formant Frequency Pitch Foreign

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