python_speech_features

This library provides common speech features for ASR including MFCCs and filterbank energies. If you are not sure what MFCCs are, and would like to know more have a look at this MFCC tutorial

Project Documentation

To cite, please use: James Lyons et al. (2020, January 14). jameslyons/python_speech_features: release v0.6.1 (Version 0.6.1). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3607820

Installation

This project is on pypi

To install from pypi:

pip install python_speech_features

From this repository:

git clone https://github.com/jameslyons/python_speech_features
python setup.py develop

Usage

Supported features:

Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients
Filterbank Energies
Log Filterbank Energies
Spectral Subband Centroids

Example use

From here you can write the features to a file etc.

MFCC Features

The default parameters should work fairly well for most cases, if you want to change the MFCC parameters, the following parameters are supported:

python
def mfcc(signal,samplerate=16000,winlen=0.025,winstep=0.01,numcep=13,
                 nfilt=26,nfft=512,lowfreq=0,highfreq=None,preemph=0.97,
     ceplifter=22,appendEnergy=True)

Parameter	Description
signal	the audio signal from which to compute features. Should be an N*1 array
samplerate	the samplerate of the signal we are working with.
winlen	the length of the analysis window in seconds. Default is 0.025s (25 milliseconds)
winstep	the step between successive windows in seconds. Default is 0.01s (10 milliseconds)
numcep	the number of cepstrum to return, default 13
nfilt	the number of filters in the filterbank, default 26.
nfft	the FFT size. Default is 512
lowfreq	lowest band edge of mel filters. In Hz, default is 0
highfreq	highest band edge of mel filters. In Hz, default is samplerate/2
preemph	apply preemphasis filter with preemph as coefficient. 0 is no filter. Default is 0.97
ceplifter	apply a lifter to final cepstral coefficients. 0 is no lifter. Default is 22
appendEnergy	if this is true, the zeroth cepstral coefficient is replaced with the log of the total frame energy.
returns	A numpy array of size (NUMFRAMES by numcep) containing features. Each row holds 1 feature vector.

Filterbank Features

These filters are raw filterbank energies. For most applications you will want the logarithm of these features. The default parameters should work fairly well for most cases. If you want to change the fbank parameters, the following parameters are supported:

python
def fbank(signal,samplerate=16000,winlen=0.025,winstep=0.01,
      nfilt=26,nfft=512,lowfreq=0,highfreq=None,preemph=0.97)

Parameter	Description
signal	the audio signal from which to compute features. Should be an N*1 array
samplerate	the samplerate of the signal we are working with
winlen	the length of the analysis window in seconds. Default is 0.025s (25 milliseconds)
winstep	the step between successive windows in seconds. Default is 0.01s (10 milliseconds)
nfilt	the number of filters in the filterbank, default 26.
nfft	the FFT size. Default is 512.
lowfreq	lowest band edge of mel filters. In Hz, default is 0
highfreq	highest band edge of mel filters. In Hz, default is samplerate/2
preemph	apply preemphasis filter with preemph as coefficient. 0 is no filter. Default is 0.97
returns	A numpy array of size (NUMFRAMES by nfilt) containing features. Each row holds 1 feature vector. The second return value is the energy in each frame (total energy, unwindowed)

Reference

sample english.wav obtained from: