Abstract: Considered to be the main means of human communication language. The language of worldwide communication, English is widely spoken around the world. Accent recognition is a significant issue in modern technology. Because of differences in their accents, even a speaker who is unfamiliar with the accent as familiar as the local speaker occasionally has trouble understanding. For the purpose of bridging these communication barriers, we have proposed a system to classify and transform speech between people caused by the individuality of their accents. We think machine learning can help with accent recognition. This research aims to increase spoken English accent recognition's precision. An innovative method of increasing the number of tactics by using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), which improves accuracy of accent classification. Additionally, English accent conversion refers to the process of changing one English accent into another so that the listener can comprehend the speaker's accent. Speech recognition and text-to-speech modules can aid with this.
Keywords: CNN, MFCC, Accent recognition, English accent conversion
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