Affiliations: [a] Department of Computer Science, Chadli Bendjedid, University, El-Tarf, PB 73, 36000, Algeria | [b] Department of Computer Science, Badji Mokhtar University, Annaba, PB 12, 23000, Algeria | [c] Laboratory LRI, Badji Mokhtar University, Annaba, PB 12, 23000, Algeria
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Corresponding author: A. Benmachiche, Department of Computer Science, Chadli Bendjedid, University, El-Tarf, PB 73, 36000, Algeria. E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: Nowadays, the speech recognition applications can be found in several activities, and their existence as a field of study and research lasts for a long time. Although, many studies deal with different problems, in security-related areas, biometric identification, access to the Smartphone… Etc. In automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, hidden Markov models (HMMs) have widely used for modeling the temporal speech signal. In order to optimize HMM parameters (i.e., observation and transition probabilities), iterative algorithms commonly used such as Forward-Backward or Baum-Welch. In this article, we propose to use the bacterial foraging optimization algorithm (BFOA) to enhance HMM with Gaussian mixture densities. As a global optimization algorithm of current interest, BFOA has proven itself for distributed optimization and control. Our experimental results show that the proposed approach yields a significant improvement of the transcription accuracy at signal/noise ratios greater than 15 dB.