Neural Network Based Gender Recognition for Voice Commands

Voice commands are a big part of modern AI applications. The tensorflow website has published a good tutorial for basic voice command recognition [link]. This blog post was inspired by that tutorial, but we set out to do something different. That tutorial builds a neural network-based model to classify commands of "down," "go," "left," "no," "right," "stop," "up," and "yes" from a subset of the Speech Commands dataset, which comprises 8,000 audio files across the commands (under CC_BY license). We, however, are interested in the gender perception of the voice commands.