METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTEXT INDEPENDENT GENDER RECOGNITION UTILIZING PHONEME TRANSITION PROBABILITY

摘要

Provided is a method for context independent gender recognition utilizing phoneme transition probability. The method for the context independent gender recognition includes detecting a voice section from a received voice signal, generating feature vectors within the detected voice section, performing a hidden Markov model on the feature vectors by using a search network that is set according to a phoneme rule to recognize a phoneme and obtain scores of first and second likelihoods, and comparing final scores of the first and second likelihoods obtained while the phoneme recognition is performed up to the last section of the voice section to finally decide gender with respect to the voice signal.