Enhancing dysarthria speech feature representation with empirical mode decomposition and Walsh-Hadamard transform

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Autores principales: Zhu, Ting, Duan, Shufei, Dingam, Camille, Liang, Huizhi, Zhang, Wei
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author Zhu, Ting
Duan, Shufei
Dingam, Camille
Liang, Huizhi
Zhang, Wei
author_facet Zhu, Ting
Duan, Shufei
Dingam, Camille
Liang, Huizhi
Zhang, Wei
contents Dysarthria speech contains the pathological characteristics of vocal tract and vocal fold, but so far, they have not yet been included in traditional acoustic feature sets. Moreover, the nonlinearity and non-stationarity of speech have been ignored. In this paper, we propose a feature enhancement algorithm for dysarthria speech called WHFEMD. It combines empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and fast Walsh-Hadamard transform (FWHT) to enhance features. With the proposed algorithm, the fast Fourier transform of the dysarthria speech is first performed and then followed by EMD to get intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). After that, FWHT is used to output new coefficients and to extract statistical features based on IMFs, power spectral density, and enhanced gammatone frequency cepstral coefficients. To evaluate the proposed approach, we conducted experiments on two public pathological speech databases including UA Speech and TORGO. The results show that our algorithm performed better than traditional features in classification. We achieved improvements of 13.8% (UA Speech) and 3.84% (TORGO), respectively. Furthermore, the incorporation of an imbalanced classification algorithm to address data imbalance has resulted in a 12.18% increase in recognition accuracy. This algorithm effectively addresses the challenges of the imbalanced dataset and non-linearity in dysarthric speech and simultaneously provides a robust representation of the local pathological features of the vocal folds and tracts.
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spellingShingle Enhancing dysarthria speech feature representation with empirical mode decomposition and Walsh-Hadamard transform
Zhu, Ting
Duan, Shufei
Dingam, Camille
Liang, Huizhi
Zhang, Wei
Audio and Speech Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Signal Processing
Dysarthria speech contains the pathological characteristics of vocal tract and vocal fold, but so far, they have not yet been included in traditional acoustic feature sets. Moreover, the nonlinearity and non-stationarity of speech have been ignored. In this paper, we propose a feature enhancement algorithm for dysarthria speech called WHFEMD. It combines empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and fast Walsh-Hadamard transform (FWHT) to enhance features. With the proposed algorithm, the fast Fourier transform of the dysarthria speech is first performed and then followed by EMD to get intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). After that, FWHT is used to output new coefficients and to extract statistical features based on IMFs, power spectral density, and enhanced gammatone frequency cepstral coefficients. To evaluate the proposed approach, we conducted experiments on two public pathological speech databases including UA Speech and TORGO. The results show that our algorithm performed better than traditional features in classification. We achieved improvements of 13.8% (UA Speech) and 3.84% (TORGO), respectively. Furthermore, the incorporation of an imbalanced classification algorithm to address data imbalance has resulted in a 12.18% increase in recognition accuracy. This algorithm effectively addresses the challenges of the imbalanced dataset and non-linearity in dysarthric speech and simultaneously provides a robust representation of the local pathological features of the vocal folds and tracts.
title Enhancing dysarthria speech feature representation with empirical mode decomposition and Walsh-Hadamard transform
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00225