Classification of speech signals through ant based clustering of time series

  • Authors:
  • Krzysztof Pancerz;Arkadiusz Lewicki;Ryszard Tadeusiewicz;Jarosław Szkoła

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Information Technology and Management, Rzeszów, Poland;University of Information Technology and Management, Rzeszów, Poland;AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland;University of Information Technology and Management, Rzeszów, Poland

  • Venue:
  • ICCCI'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Computational Collective Intelligence: technologies and applications - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Classification of speech signals in a time domain can be made through a clustering process of time windows into which examined speech signals are divided. Disturbances in speech signals of patients having some problems with the voice organ cause some difficulties in formation of coherent clusters of similar time windows. A quality of a clustering process result can be used as an indicator of non-natural disturbances in articulation of selected phonemes by patients. In the paper, we describe a procedure based on this fact. A special ant based algorithm is used to cluster time windows being time series. In this algorithm, a new local function, formulas for picking and dropping decisions as well as some additional operations are implemented to adjust the clustering process to a classification ability.