Recently the use of whispered speech has increased due to mobile phone and the necessity of whispered speech recognition is increasing. So various feature vectors, which are mainly used for speech recognition, are applied to their HMMs, normal speech ...
Recently the use of whispered speech has increased due to mobile phone and the necessity of whispered speech recognition is increasing. So various feature vectors, which are mainly used for speech recognition, are applied to their HMMs, normal speech models, whispered speech models, and integrated models with normal speech and whispered speech so as to find out suitable recognition system for whispered speech. The experimental results of recognition test show that the recognition rate of whispered speech applied to normal speech models is too low to be used in practical applications, but separate whispered speech models recognize whispered speech with the highest rates at least 85%. And also integrated models with normal speech and whispered speech score acceptable recognition rate but more study is needed to increase recognition rate. MFCC and PLCC feature vectors score higher recognition rate when applied to separate whispered speech models, but PLCC is the best when applied to integrated models with normal speech and whispered speech.