There are a lot of difficulties that have to be overcome in the speaker-independent (S.I.) phrase recognition system . And the feasibility of accurate ,real-time and robust system pose of the greatest challenges in the system. In this thesis ,the speaker-independent phase recognition system is based on Hidden Markov Model (HMM). HMM has been proved to be of great value in many applications, notably in speech recognition. HMM is a stochastic approach which characterizes many of the variability in speech signal. It applys the state-of-the-art approach to Automatic Speech Recognition .

The objective of this thesis is to build a phrase recognition system under noisy environment that can be used in real-life. In this system, the noisy speech is first filtered by the enhanced spectral subtraction method to reduce the noise level. Then the MFCC with cepstral mean subtraction is applied to extract the speech features. Finally, hidden Markov model (HMM) is used in the last stage to build the probabilistic model for each phrase. A Mandarin microphone database of 514 company names that are in Taiwan¡¦s stock market is collected. A speaker independent noisy phrase recognition system is then implemented. This system has been tested under various noise environments and different noise strengths.

[pt] O presente trabalho é proposto o atributo PAC-MFCC operando com Classificadores em Sub-Bandas para a tarefa de identificação de locutor independente do texto em ruído. O sistema proposto é comparado com os atributos MFCC (Coeficientes Cepestrais de Frequência Mel), PAC- MFCC (Fase Autocorrelação-MFCC ) sem uso de classificadores em sub-bandas, SSCH(Histogramas de Centróides de Sub-Bandas Espectrais) e TECC (Coeficientes Cepestrais da Energia Teager). Nesta tarefa de reconhecimento, utilizou-se a base TIMIT a qual é composta de 630 locutores onde cada um deles falam 10 frases de aproximadamente 3 segundos cada frase, das quais 8 frases foram utilizadas para treinamento e 2 para teste, obtendo-se um total de 1260 locuções para o reconhecimento. Investigou-se o desempenho dos diversos sistemas utilizando diferentes tipos de ruídos da base Noisex 92 com diferentes relação sinal ruído. Verificou-se que a taxa de acerto da técnica PAC-MFCC com classificador em Sub-Bandas apresenta o melhor desempenho em comparação com as outras técnicas quando se tem uma relação sinal ruído menor que 10dB. / [en] In this work is proposed the use of the PAC-MFCC feature with Sub-band Classifiers for the task of text-independent speaker identification in noise. The proposed scheme is compared with the features MFCC (Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients ), PAC-MFCC (Phase Autocorrelation MFCC) without subband classifiers, SSCH (Subband Spectral Centroid Histograms) and TECC (Teager Energy Cepstrum Coefficients). In this recognition task, we used the TIMIT database which consists of 630 speakers, where every one of them speak 10 utterances of 3 seconds each one approximately, of which eight utterance were used for training and two for testing, thus obtaining a total of 1260 test utterance for the recognition. We investigated the performance of these techniques using differents types of noise from the base Noisex 92 with different signal to noise ratios. It was found that the accuracy rate of the PAC-MFCC feature with Sub-band Classifiers performs better in comparison with other techniques at a lower signal noise(less than 10dB).