Abstract
This paper introduces a new back-end classifier for a
speech recognition system that is based on artificial
life (ALife). The ALife species being used for
classification purposes are called wains, which were
developed using the Créatúr framework.
The speech recognition task used in the evaluation of
the new classifier is that of isolated digit
recognition. Performance of the proposed back-end
classifier is benchmarked for comparison purposes
against a hidden Markov model (HMM)-based classifier.
Mel frequency cepstral coefficients extracted from the
speech by a front-end processor are used by the two
back-ends for classification of the speech utterances.
In tests carried out to date, the performance of the
proposed classifier falls short of the performance of
the HMM-based classifier. However, the results suggest
that with further training the recognition accuracy of
the proposed classifier can be significantly
improved.
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