Audio classification utilizing a rule-based approach and the support vector machine classifier

The evaluation of two classification architectures utilizing the rule-based approach and the one-against-one support vector machine (OAO-SVM) is presented in this paper. The classification of the audio stream is carried out in two steps. At first, the rule-based speech/non-speech and music/environment sound discrimination is conducted. The set of adopted features, with a high efficiency in separation of speech and music signals, is implemented in order to find the best discriminator. Consequently, speech segments are classified into pure speech, speech with music and speech with env. sound using the OAO-SVM multi-class classification scheme. Experimental results show that the used classification architecture can decrease the classification error in comparison with OAO-SVM by using MFCC features only.