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Unit 1 NMU

The project aims to develop a robust speech-to-text transcription system capable of accurately transcribing spoken language in noisy environments and diverse accents. Key skills gained include speech recognition fundamentals, data collection, machine learning, and data analysis, with applications in healthcare, customer service, and education technology. Deliverables include a trained model, performance dashboards, and a comprehensive report on findings and evaluation metrics.

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Unit 1 NMU

The project aims to develop a robust speech-to-text transcription system capable of accurately transcribing spoken language in noisy environments and diverse accents. Key skills gained include speech recognition fundamentals, data collection, machine learning, and data analysis, with applications in healthcare, customer service, and education technology. Deliverables include a trained model, performance dashboards, and a comprehensive report on findings and evaluation metrics.

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Project Title Building a Speech-to-Text Transcription

System with Noise Robustness

Skills take away From This Project Speech Recognition Fundamentals, Data
Collection and Augmentation, Data Analysis
and Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA), Machine
Learning and Deep Learning Model
Development, Evaluation Metrics for Speech
Systems

Domain Healthcare, Customer Service Automation (IVR


Systems), Education Technology (Lecture
transcription)

Problem Statement:

Speech recognition systems are widely used in applications like virtual


assistants, transcription services, and customer support. However, these
systems often struggle in real-world scenarios due to challenges such as
background noise, diverse accents, and homophones.

The goal of this project is to build a robust speech-to-text transcription system


that can accurately transcribe spoken language into text, even in noisy
environments or when dealing with varied accents.

Business Use Cases:


1.​ Customer Support Automation
a.​ Automatically transcribe and analyze customer calls to extract
insights and improve service quality.
2.​ Accessibility Tools
a.​ Develop tools for individuals with hearing impairments by
converting spoken content into readable text.
3.​ Voice Assistants
a.​ Enhance the accuracy of voice assistants in understanding user
commands across different accents and environments.
4.​ Meeting Transcription
a.​ Provide real-time transcription services for business meetings,
enabling better record-keeping and collaboration.
5.​ Educational Tools
a.​ Educational Tools : Assist educators and students by transcribing
lectures and making them searchable and accessible.
Approach:

Data Collection and Cleaning

●​ Collect audio data from publicly available datasets (e.g., LibriSpeech,


Common Voice).
●​ Augment the dataset with noise samples (e.g., urban sounds, crowd
noise) to simulate real-world conditions.
●​ Clean the data by removing corrupted files, normalizing audio levels,
and ensuring proper labeling.

Data Analysis

●​ Analyze the distribution of accents, genders, and noise levels in the


dataset.
●​ Identify patterns in misclassification errors caused by homophones or
accents.

Visualization

●​ Use Power BI to create dashboards showing:


●​ Accuracy metrics across different noise levels and accents.
●​ Word error rate (WER) trends over time.
●​ Frequency of homophone-related errors.

Advanced Analytics

●​ Train acoustic models using deep learning frameworks like PyTorch or


TensorFlow.
●​ Implement language models (e.g., n-gram models or
transformer-based models like BERT) to improve context
understanding.
●​ Use decoders (e.g., beam search) to combine acoustic and language
model outputs.

Power BI Integration

●​ Integrate Power BI with Python scripts to visualize key performance


indicators (KPIs) such as WER, accuracy, and latency.
●​ Create interactive dashboards to compare system performance
under different conditions (e.g., clean vs. noisy audio).

Visualization
●​ Accuracy Heatmap : Visualize transcription accuracy across different
noise levels and accents.
●​ Error Distribution Chart : Show the frequency of errors caused by
homophones, accents, and noise.
●​ Time Series Plot : Display improvements in WER over multiple training
iterations.
●​ Confusion Matrix : Highlight common misclassifications in phoneme or
word predictions.
Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
●​ Audio Duration Distribution : Analyze the length of audio clips in the
dataset.
●​ Accent Diversity : Identify the proportion of speakers from different
accents/regions.
●​ Noise Level Analysis : Measure the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in
augmented audio files.
●​ Word Frequency : Examine the most common words and their context in
the dataset.
●​ Homophone Identification : Identify pairs of homophones and their impact
on transcription accuracy.

Results

The results should include:


●​ Transcription Accuracy : Overall accuracy of the system in clean and noisy
conditions.
●​ Word Error Rate (WER) : A measure of how many words were incorrectly
transcribed.
●​ Latency : Time taken to transcribe an audio clip.
●​ Accent-Specific Performance : Accuracy metrics broken down by accent
type.
●​ Noise Robustness : Comparison of performance at different noise levels.

Project Evaluation

●​ Word Error Rate (WER) : Calculate the percentage of incorrectly predicted


words. Formula: WER = (Substitutions+Deletions+Insertions ) / Total Words
●​ Accuracy : Percentage of correctly transcribed words.
●​ Latency : Measure the time taken to process and transcribe
audio.
●​ Precision and Recall : Evaluate the system’s ability to correctly
identify specific words or phrases.
●​ F1 Score : Harmonic mean of precision and recall.
●​ User Feedback : Conduct surveys or tests with real users to
gather qualitative feedback.

Data Set:
Data Set Link: Data (Version: Common Voice Delta Segment 21.0)
Data Set Explanation:
●​ Audio Recordings: The dataset contains short audio clips (typically 5-10
seconds) of people reading sentences aloud, captured in various
environments.
●​ Text Transcriptions: Each audio clip is paired with a corresponding text
transcription, ensuring alignment between spoken words and written text.
●​ Multilingual Content: The dataset includes recordings in over 100
languages, making it suitable for training multilingual speech recognition
models.
●​ Metadata Availability: Metadata such as speaker age, gender, accent, and
language proficiency is provided, enabling detailed analysis and
customization of models.
●​ Crowdsourced Diversity: Contributions come from volunteers worldwide,
resulting in diverse accents, dialects, and speaking styles.
Project Deliverables:

●​ Source Code
●​ A trained speech-to-text transcription model.
●​ A Power BI dashboard showcasing performance metrics.
●​ A report summarizing EDA findings, model performance, and evaluation
metrics.
●​ Insights into how the system performs under different conditions (noise,
accents, etc.).
●​ A set of interactive reports and dashboards showcasing key insights.
Documentation:
●​ Detailed documentation explaining the process, challenges faced, and
solutions implemented.
Timeline:

The project must be completed and submitted within 10 days from the assigned
date.

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