Judul: Perbandingan Metode Pengenalan Pola Suara Menggunakan Codebook dan Probabilistic Neural Network Berdasarkan Kisaran Usia dan Jenis Kelamin
Abstrak: Voice signal be used to identify a speaker, including the age range and gender based on the difference of its frequency characteristic. This research compares two method of voice identification namely codebook and probability neural network (PNN) in recognizing the age range and gender of the speaker. In this research, the age range is divided into three categories namely children (8-11 years old), teenagers (12-17 years old) and adults (30-50 years old). Each age category is divided based on gender, so that there are six categories in total. This research utilized 600 voice data representing the total six categories. MFCC is used as a method of feature extraction, whereas K-means is used as the clustering method. Several important parameters in the MFCC process are the number of cepstral coefficients, overlap, and time frame. The overlap and time frame values are 0.5 and 40 ms, respectively; whereas the chosen cepstral coefficients to produce the maximum accuracy are 13, 20, and 26. The comparison of voice identification is constructed from three different proportions of training data and testing data (25%:75%, 50%:50%, 75%:25%). It is shown that the accuracy of codebook method is 97.20% whereas that of PNN is 95.17%.
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Judul: Pengenalan Suara Berdasarkan Usia dan Jenis Kelamin Menggunakan Algoritme Support Vector Machine (SVM)
Abstrak: Voice recognition using computers is made possible due to the unique characteristics and frequencies that each voice possesses. These vocal characteristics can be grouped according to gender (male or female) or age (child, teenager, or adult). The purpose of this research is to identify individual voices that have been placed within one of the groups based on age and gender. The data used comes from the research of Fransiswa (2010) and consists of six classes: boys (AL), girls (AP), teenage boys (RL), teenage girls (RP), men (TL), and women (TP). The method used to extract vocal characteristics was the Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficient (MFCC) and pattern recognition was performed using a Support Vector Machine (SVM) with several variations of the kernel such as Linear, Polynomial, and Radial Basis Function (RBF). The parameters affecting the MFCC process include: The value of the coefficients, overlap, time frame, and the rate of sampling. The average highest accuracy value of 98,24% was obtained using the RBF Kernel
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Judul: Development of Antioxidant Film from Basil Seed (Ocimum citriodourum) Mucilage Incorporated with Thyme Essential Oil.
Abstrak: The objectives of this research was to evaluate the effects of thyme essential oil addition on physical properties and antioxidant activity of lemon basil seed mucilage film. Lemon basil is a common name for the culinary herb (Ocimum citriodourum). This research project investigated the properties of an edible film based on lemon basil seed mucilage (LBSM) incorporated with thyme essential oil (TEO). LBSM (0.4% w/v) films were prepared by adding glycerol as plasticizers at the concentration of 30% w/w based on the weight of LBSM and then incorporated with TEO for antioxidant properties. LBSM films were given different concentrations of TEO (0%, 1%, 2% and 3% v/v) (0% as the control). The result showed that films with 3 % TEO had the highest water vapor permeability (WVP) (3.27±0.38 x10-4g mm/m2d kPa), while the control film showed the lowest WVP (1.36±0.28 x10-4g mm/m2d kPa). Water solubility were decreased with the increase in TEO concentration (p<0.05). 1% TEO films showed the highest tensile strength (5.17±0.54MPa) but lower % elongation at break (11.28±1.86%) compared to the other two films (p<0.05) (excluding the control). Scanning electron microscopy showed that the microstructure of the TEO LBSM films had a critical effect on its physical properties, further supporting the tensile strength and WVP results. The 3% TEO film exhibited the highest radical scavenging activity on DPPH (3.3±0.04 % inhibition) (p<0.05) while the others were very low and had slight difference. Increasing the amount of TEO will increase the antioxidant activity, but further increasing the concentration of TEO will also weaken the physical properties of the film.
Keyword: Lemon basil seed mucilage, edible film, antioxidant, thyme essential oil, film properties