ABSTRACT

This paper introduces an evolutionary approach for training the adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS). The previous works are based on gradient descendent (GD); this algorithm converges very slowly and gets stuck down at bad local minima. This study applies one of the swarm intelligent branches, named particle swarm optimization (PSO), where the premise parameters of the rules are optimized by a PSO, and the conclusion part is optimized by least-squares estimation (LSE). The hybrid PSO-ANFIS model is performed for speaker recognition on CHAINS speech dataset. The results obtained by the hybrid model showed an improvement on the accuracy compared to similar ANFIS based on gradient descendent optimization.

This paper presents the application of Adaptive Network Based Fuzzy Inference System ANFIS on speech recognition. The primary tasks of fuzzy modeling are structure identification and parameter optimization, the former determines the numbers of membership functions and fuzzy if-then rules while the latter identifies a feasible set of parameters under the given structure. However, the increase of input dimension, rule numbers will have an exponential growth and there will cause problem of "rule disaster". Thus, determination of an appropriate structure becomes an important issue where subtractive clustering is applied to define an optimal initial structure and obtain small number of rules. The appropriate learning algorithm is performed on TIMIT speech database supervised type, a pre-processing of the acoustic signal and extracting the coefficients MFCCs parameters relevant to the recognition system. Finally, hybrid learning combines the gradient decent and least square estimation LSE of parameters network. The results obtained show the effectiveness of the method in terms of recognition rate and number of fuzzy rules generated.

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