Multi-view Ensemble Learning (MEL) techniques have shown remarkable success in improving the accuracy and resilience of classification algorithms by combining multiple base classifiers trained over different perspectives of a dataset, known as views. One crucial factor affecting ensemble performance is the selection of diverse and informative feature subsets. Feature Set Partitioning (FSP) methods address this challenge by creating distinct views of features for each base classifier. In this context, we propose the Round-Robin Feature Set Partitioning ( RR -FSP) technique, which introduces a novel approach to feature allocation among views. This novel approach evenly distributes highly correlated features across views, thereby enhancing ensemble diversity, promoting balanced feature utilization, and encouraging the more equitable distribution of correlated features, RR -FSP contributes to the advancement of MEL techniques. Through experiments on various datasets, we demonstrate that RR -FSP offers improved classification accuracy and robustness, making it a valuable addition to the arsenal of FSP techniques for MEL.

Vowel regions play important role in various speech tasks, such as speech segmentation, speaker-verification, prosody modification and emotion conversion. The instants at which the onset and offset of vowel take place in the speech signal are known as vowel onset point and vowel offset point, respectively. Vowel regions start with the vowel onset point and end with the vowel offset point. In this letter, we have proposed two methods for determining the vowel offset points from the speech signal. The first method explores the combination of evidences from excitation source, spectral peaks and modulation spectrum for determining the vowel offset point. In the second method, spectral energy within glottal closure region is used for determining the vowel offset point. The proposed vowel offset point detection methods are evaluated on TIMIT database under clean and noisy environments.

In this paper, we propose a method for detecting the vowel onset points (VOPs) for low bit rate coded speech. VOP is the instant at which the onset of the vowel takes place in the speech signal. VOP plays an important role for the applications, such as consonant-vowel (CV) unit recognition and speech rate modification. The proposed VOP detection method is based on the spectral energy present in the glottal closure region of the speech signal. Speech coders considered to carry out this study are Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) full rate, code-excited linear prediction (CELP), and mixed-excitation linear prediction (MELP). TIMIT database and CV units collected from the broadcast news corpus are used for evaluation. Performance of the proposed method is compared with existing methods, which uses the combination of evidence from the excitation source, spectral peaks energy, and modulation spectrum. The proposed VOP detection method has shown significant improvement in the performance compared to the existing method under clean as well as coded cases. The effectiveness of the proposed VOP detection method is analyzed in CV recognition by using VOP as an anchor point.