Voice Recognition Using MATLAB

Muhammad Wasim
Muhammad Muneeb
Registration No:2018357
Registration No:2018304
Department of Electrical Engineering, GIKI
Department of Electrical Engineering, GIKI

Abstract— The aim of the CEP was to develop an algorithm
in MATLAB which could identify the gender of the speaker
based on its frequency, in order to achieve it we employed
the auto-correlation technique and achieve successful
results. A GUI was also developed using app designer on
MATLAB to make the process user friendly.
Keywords—MATLAB, frequency, gender, speaker, GUI
(Graphical Use Interface)
I. INTRODUCTION
The aim of the CEP was to perform biometrics using the
voice samples in order to achieve the purpose equal number
of voices of a Male and female were recorded and a
MATLAB program was written to differentiate between the
male and female voices. A GUI was also created for this
application.
Signal is a physical quantity that varies with respect to the
independent variable like time, space, etc. Signal values can
be represented in zero’s and one’s. Processing of digital
signal by using digital computer is called as Digital Signal
Processing. According to Webster’s dictionary, speech is the
expression or communication throughout in speakers. Speech
is the most important thing to express our thoughts. Speech
signal is used to communicate among people. It not only
consists of the information but also carries the information
regarding the particular speaker. From which the speaker is
male or female can be recognized.
II. LITERATURE REVIEW
A lot of research and work is currently being carried out on
the voice recognition using GR. Different Algorithms have
been developed by researchers for perfect recognition of
female or male voices. It is currently use in ASR software
(Automatic Software Recognition).
The meaning of Gender Recognition (GR) is recognizing the
gender of the person whether the speaker is male or female.
The Information about gender, age, ethnicity, and emotional
state are the important ingredients that give rich behavioral
information. Such information can be obtained from the
speech signal. In this project, an unknown speaker is
compared to a database of some known speakers.
The best matching system is taken as the recognition
decision. From the Recognition decision we conclude
whether the given voice sample is generated by a male or
female.
Correlation is normally used in signal processing, where you
need to compare two signals and need to find the similarity
between them. It is also known as the dot product of those
two signals. Correlation has many uses and you can read
more about it on its Wiki Page. Correlation is also used for
pattern recognition like you want to find some pattern in the
signal then you can use Correlation, In this project, we are
using correlation to find similarities between our stored
signals and the testing signal..
III. WORKING OF CODE
The algorithm works in the following manner first to read
audio signals directly from the microphone, MATLAB has a
command format:
x=wavrecord(n, fs) so we first record the samples using it
The n is the number of samples to be recorded and fs is the
sampling frequency. The Fs is taken as 8000 for sample 1
and 6000 for sample 2. The Fs value should be in a limit so
that MATLAB can easily sample out the voice signal.
To write an audio file, following command is used:
wavwrite(x, fs, file_name)
The file_name= ‘test.wav’ or any name that you want and x
is the audio signal.
For reading an audio file:
[y,fs] = audioread(‘m1.wav’)
Here y is the audio signal’s amplitude and Fs being the
sampling rate.
To record audio in MATLAB we will use the following
command
arObj=audiorecorder(Fs, nbits, nChannels)
Here Fs is the same sampling rate, nChannels is the number
of channels being used and nbits is the data type. This
command creates an audio object.
It records audio from an input device, such as a microphone
connected to your system in the object, for the number of
seconds specified by length.
To stop recording audio in the object created by the
audiorecorder, following command is used:
recordblocking(arObj, length)
To store the recorded audio signal in a numeric way,
following command is used:
y = getaudiodata(arObj)
It will return the recorded audio signal in the form of double
array.
All the above-mentioned commands were related to audio
analysis, now we are going to link these terms with the
gender classification.
To start with the classification, an important term which is
being used here is “autocorrelation.”
Autocorrelation – It is also known as serial correlation or
cross-correlation of a signal with itself at different points in
time (that is what the cross stands for). Informally, it is the
similarity between observations as a function of the time lag
between them. MATLAB has a built-in command for this:
r = xcorr(x,y)
It returns the cross-correlation of two discrete-time
sequences, x and y. Cross-correlation measures the
similarity between x and shifted (lagged) copies of y as a
function of the lag.
 IV. GUI (GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE)
fprintf('Plotting the waveform…\n');
The GUI was also made for the process to be user friendly in
order to achieve the purpose we used the app development y1=getaudiodata(rec1); % Get audio
technique in the MATLAB, first a button records the sample sample data
from the first speaker and the graph is also displayed, after audiowrite('test1.wav',y1,fs1);
this the sample from the second speaker is also recorded and
the second graph is plotted in the MATLAB and the gender rec2=audiorecorder(fs2, nbits, nChannels);
is also displayed.
fprintf('start of 5s recording… PLEASE SPEAK
FOR SECOND VOICE SAMPLE');
recordblocking(rec2, duration);

fprintf('Finished recording.\n');

fprintf('Plotting the waveform…\n');

y2=getaudiodata(rec2); % Get audio

sample data
audiowrite('test2.wav',y2,fs2);

ms1 = fs1/500;

ms10 = fs1/50;

r = xcorr(y1, ms10, 'coeff');

d1 = (-ms10:ms10)/fs1;

figure(1)

plot(d1, r);

title('Autocorrelation');
V. MATLAB CODE
xlabel('Delay (s)');

ylabel('Correlation coeff.');
fs1=8000; % Sampling
rate
r = r(ms10 + 1 : 2*ms10+1);
fs2=7500;
nbits=16;
[rmax, tx] = max(r(ms1:ms10));
nChannels=1;
duration=5; % Recording
Fx1 = fs1/(ms1+tx-1);
duration
rec1=audiorecorder(fs1, nbits, nChannels);
ms2 = fs2/500;
fprintf('start of 5s recording… PLEASE SPEAK
FOR FIRST VOICE SAMPLE');
ms20 = fs2/50;
recordblocking(rec1, duration);
fprintf('Finished recording.\n');
r = xcorr(y2, ms20, 'coeff');

d2 = (-ms20:ms20)/fs2; ylabel('Correlation coeff.');

figure(2)
plot(d2, r); r = r(ms20 + 1 : 2*ms20+1);
[rmax, tx] = max(r(ms2:ms20));
title('Autocorrelation'); Fx2 = fs2/(ms2+tx-1);

Fth= 200;
xlabel('Delay (s)'); if Fx1> Fth
disp('It is a female voice!')
else
disp('It is a male voice!') [1] https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/164116-how-to-
gender-recognition-with-fft)
end
[2] HTTPS://XPERTSVISION.WORDPRESS.COM/2015/12/04/GEND
if Fx2> Fth ER-RECOGNITION-BY-VOICE-ANALYSIS/
disp('It is a female voice!') [3] HTTPS://WWW.SLIDESHARE.NET/RONWINSTANMAY/GEND
ER-DETECTION-USING-MATLAB
else [4] HTTPS://MATLABSPROJECT.BLOGSPOT.COM/2019/10/AUTO
disp('It is a male voice!') MATIC-GENDER-RECOGNITION-SYSTEM.HTML
HTTPS://HARSHMITTAL2210.MEDIUM.COM/MALE-FEMALE-
VOICE-RECOGNITION-B95022AE87B3
end
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