Abstract
We explore a new spectral representation of speech signals through group delay functions. The group delay functions by themselves are noisy and difficult to interpret owing to zeroes that are closeto the unit circle in the z-domain and these clutter the spectra. A new modified group delay function that reduces the effects of zeroes close to the unit circle is used. Assuming that this new function is minimum phase, the modified group delay spectrum is converted to a sequence of cepstral coefficients. A preliminary phoneme recogniser is built using features derived from these cepstra. Results are compared with those obtained from features derived from the traditional mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC). […]
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