Cihan Varol

Work place: Department of Computer Science at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, USA

E-mail: cxv007@shsu.edu

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Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Speech Recognition

Biography

Cihan Varol: Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator for the Department of Computer Science and Sam Houston State University. His research interests are in the general area of information (data) quality, VoIP Forensics, and risk management with specific emphasis on personal identity recognition, record linkage, entity resolution, pattern matching techniques, natural language processing, multi-platform VoIP applications, VoIP artifacts data cleansing, and quality of service in business process automation. These studies have led to more than 50 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications, and two book chapters.

Author Articles
Automatic Spoken Language Recognition with Neural Networks

By Valentin Gazeau Cihan Varol

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2018.08.02, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2018

Translation has become very important in our generation as people with completely different cultures and languages are networked together through the Internet. Nowadays one can easily communicate with anyone in the world with the services of Google Translate and/or other translation applications. Humans can already recognize languages that they have priory been exposed to. Even though they might not be able to translate, they can have a good idea of what the spoken language is. This paper demonstrates how different Neural Network models can be trained to recognize different languages such as French, English, Spanish, and German. For the training dataset voice samples were choosed from Shtooka, VoxForge, and Youtube. For testing purposes, not only data from these websites, but also personally recorded voices were used. At the end, this research provides the accuracy and confidence level of multiple Neural Network architectures, Support Vector Machine and Hidden Markov Model, with the Hidden Markov Model yielding the best results reaching almost 70 percent accuracy for all languages.

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