Introduction:

The entire process of speech recognition can be broadly

split into two subsequent phases.
The training phase

The testing phase.

Two Phases-Block diagram

Basic Structure of Speech

Recognition system

Vector quantization
Vector Quantization is a process of mapping vectors
from a large vector space to a finite number of regions
in that space. Each region is called a cluster and can be
represented by its center called a codeword. The
collection of all code words is called a codebook.

Feature Extraction
The input voice signal is captured using a microphone in
real-time. Most of the energy content of voice signal is
around ..3 kHz to 4 kHz. So the captured signal should be
sampled at a rate greater than 8 kHz following the
Nyqiust rule.
The speech signal is a short time Wide Sense Stationary
Process. So each word is divided into frames of 20ms for
further processing. Hamming Window is applied to these
frames to minimize sharp discontinuities.