An experiment of Moroccan dialect speech recognition in noisy environments using PocketSphinx

In this study, we introduce an experimental framework for Moroccan dialect speech recognition under various additive noise conditions using the open-source tool PocketSphinx. We curated a corpus comprising the ten most commonly used greetings in the Moroccan dialect, extracted from telephone conversations. This corpus was recorded with 60 speakers (30 males and 30 females). Each speaker articulated each expression three times in natural and noisy conditions. Feature extraction utilized Mel Scale Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC), and acoustic modeling, based on monophony, was implemented using Hidden Markov Models (HMM). While automatic speech recognition systems demonstrate commendable performance in noise-free conditions, their efficacy noticeably diminishes in the presence of noise. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2024.