‘Guess who Am I?
’ Application
Digital Siganls Processing
Name Amjad Shomali Name: Nadine Eideh
ID: 1161957 ID: 1161961
Faculty of Engineering and Technology Faculty of Engineering and Technology
Birzeit University Birzeit University
I. INTRODUCTION
A simple python voice recognition program. The project
consists of 3 phases, first being collecting voice data of the
words “YES” and “NO” by different people in order to
analyze this data and compare it with data that the computer
has trained for. Second being a basic programming guess
“Who am I?” game through the terminal. The program has
12 pictures in which the user picks one, the program
afterwards starts asking yes or no questions in order to guess
the picture. Third and final phase is connecting both phase
one and two to complete a whole Guess who am I program.
Simply said the program asks the user through computer
generated speech (TTS) and records the answer for analysis,
it being a YES or a NO.
II. PROBLEM SPECIFICATION
Methods for analyzing the user’s voice pattern in order to
determine if it’s a yes or a no. optimizing the recognition to
be fairly accurate for each case by adding more test data
with a variety of spectrum cases
III. DATA
We’ve used two parts in phase one’s data. Part one:
Training voice samples where the program feeds the training
data to itself and compares it to Part two: which are the test
voice samples.
Phase II we pulled a few easily characterized cartoonish
pictures straight out of google for the user to use.
Phase III we’ve added a simple program that asks the user to
say yes/no to the mic 5 times each and adds it to the training
data for better recognition next time!
IV. EVALUATION CRITERIA
Simply said, the more data we collect the better the program
will perform! In phase one the training results are compared
with each test sample and assert if the analysis is right or
not!
V. APPROACH
Bulk calculating the zero-crossing and energy of the training
data, knowing that “YES” would have a higher frequency
(high zero crossing) compared to the “NO” which is a low
dominant vowel.
Name: Rami Musleh
ID: 1141304
Faculty of Engineering and Technology
Birzeit University
Hence comparing the user’s input voice with the calculated
averages for example if the zero crossing for the user is high
it may highly mean that it’s a YES and vice versa.
Note that splitting the signal and calculating the zero
crossing for it gives more accurate results.
Finally comparing the cosine spatial distance of the bulk
calculated data and the input data in order to determine the
similarity.
Making a guess who am I game was fairly easy, it was just
made up of reducing the characteristics array after each
input until we finally have one entry left.
And so was connecting both phases, it was just a matter of
code organization.
VI. RESULT AND ANALYSIS
Asserting a simple collection of test data after training,
which had a 100% accuracy rate. But it’s hard to confirm
the accuracy rate with such data
After merging into phase 3 we encountered a shortfall where
the test data was fed US voice training data, hence, running
the program on our own voices almost never gave a right
answer.
So we went off our shoes and made our own data with a
simple program that records 10 samples of yes/no and uses
it as training data. We’ve added subtitles in the console for
better observation, we can see that... IT WORKS!
VII. DEVELOPMENT
For better recognition there has to be a furthermore accurate
way, for example calculating a more precise ZCR by
chipping the signal to small pieces before calculation.
Most importantly, more data for comparison! As we can see
after we’ve added our own data, the program started to
actually work, and with a rather high accuracy rate!
VIII. CONCLUSION
This was probably one of the most interesting projects
we’ve run through, even though the method was
oversimplified compared to the more advanced methods like
pattern recognition and phonetic approach, this project was
definitely a good method to learn by doing as we’ve learned
a lot about the course, moreover, as a team.