Feature vector that contains the most commonly used features when converting a raw wavefile to a sequence of features.

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The first step in ASR is to transform the input waveform into a sequence of acoustic feature vectors, where each vector represents the information in a small time window of the signal.

Feature Vector

Spectral information is extracted on a mel scale, rather than equally across all frequency bands. We do this because humans hearing is more sensitive at lower frequencies than higher ones, so modeling speech recognition the same way helps performance.

Mel Filter Bank and Log

An on-going but a helpful book resource about NLP
https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/

Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft) 

Log Mel Spectrum

In feature extraction for ASR, we must extract spectral information from our windowed signal and find out how much energy the signal contains at different frequency bands. This is done with DFT.

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