A Nonlinearized Discriminant Analysis and Its Application to Speech Impediment Therapy

  • Authors:
  • András Kocsor;László Tóth;Dénes Paczolay

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • TSD '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper studies the application of automatic phoneme classification to the computer-aided training of the speech and hearing handicapped. In particular, we focus on how efficiently discriminant analysis can reduce the number of features and increase classification performance. A nonlinear counterpart of Linear Discriminant Analysis, which is a general purpose class specific feature extractor, is presented where the nonlinearization is carried out by employing the so-called 'kernel-idea'. Then, we examine howthis nonlinear extraction technique affects the efficiency of learning algorithms such as Artificial Neural Network and Support Vector Machines.