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    Robust Dialect Identification System using Spectro-Temporal Gabor Features
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018) Chittaragi, N.B.; Mothukuri, S.P.; Hegde, P.; Koolagudi, S.G.
    Automatic identification of dialects of a language is gaining popularity in the field of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. The present work proposes an automatic dialect identification (ADI) system using 2D Gabor and spectral features. A comprehensive study of the five dialects of a Dravidian Kannada language has been taken up. Gabor filters representing spectro-temporal modulations attempt in emulation of the human auditory system concerning signal processing strategies. Hence, they are able to well perceive human voices in tern recognize dialectal variations effectively. Also, spectral features Mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) are derived. A single classifier based support vector machine (SVM) and ensemble based extreme random forest (ERF) classification methods are employed for recognition. The effectiveness of the Gabor features for ADI system is demonstrated with proposed Kannada dialect dataset along with a standard intonation variation in English (IViE) dataset for British English dialects. The Gabor features have shown better performance over MFCC features with both datasets. Better recognition performance of 88.75% and 99.16% is achieved with Kannada and IViE dialect datasets respectively. Proposed Gabor features have demonstrated better performances even under noisy conditions. © 2018 IEEE.
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    Spectral Feature Based Kannada Dialect Classification from Stop Consonants
    (Springer, 2019) Chittaragi, N.B.; Hegde, P.; Mothukuri, S.K.P.; Koolagudi, G.K.
    This study focuses on the investigation of the significance of stop consonants in view of the classification of Kannada dialects. Majority of the studies proposed have shown the existence of evidential differences in the pronunciation of vowels across dialects. However, consonant based studies on dialect processing are found to be comparatively lesser. In this work, eight stop consonants are used for characterization of five Kannada dialects. Acoustic characteristics such as cepstral coefficients, formant frequencies, spectral flux, and rolloff features are explored from spectral analysis of stops. The consonant dataset is derived from standard Kannada dialect dataset consisting of 2417 consonants obtained from 16 native speakers from each dialect. Support vector machine (SVM) and decision tree-based extreme gradient boosting (XGB) ensemble classification methods are employed for automatic recognition of Kannada dialects. The research findings show that the stops existing for shorter duration also convey dialectal linguistic cues. Combination of spectral properties has contributed to the identification of distinct dialect-specific information across Kannada dialects. © 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.