Deep Neural Network based Place and Manner of Articulation Detection and Classification for Bengali Continuous Speech.

The phonological features are the most basic unit of a speech knowledge hierarchy. This paper reports about detection and classification of phonological features from Bengali continuous speech. The phonological features are based on place and manner of articulation. All the experiments are performed by a deep neural network based framework. Two different models are designed for the detection and classification task. The deep-structured models are pre-trained by stacked autoencoder. The C-DAC speech corpus is used for continuous spoken Bengali speech data. Frame wise cepstral representation is provided in the input layer of the deep-structured model. Speech data from multiple speakers has been used to confirm speaker-independency. In detection task, the system achieved 86.19% average overall accuracy. In the classification task, accuracy for the classification of place of articulation remains low with 50.2% while in manner-based classification, the system delivered an improved performance with 98.9% accuracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]