Hardware Implementation of MFCC-Based Feature Extraction for Speaker Recognition

摘要

The most important issues in the field of speech recognition and representative of the speech is a feature extraction. Feature extraction based Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC) is one the most important features required among various kinds of speech application. In this paper, FPGA-based for speech features extraction MFCC algorithm is proposed. The complexities of computational as well as the requirement of memory usage are characterized, analyzed, and improved. Look-up table (LUT) scheme is used to deal with the elementary function value in the MFCC algorithm and fixed-point arithmetic is implemented to reduce the cost under accuracy study. The final feature extraction design is implemented effectively into the FPGA-Xilinx Virtex2 XC2V6000 FF1157-4 chip.