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Improving Rapid Unsupervised Speaker Adaptation Based on HMM-Sufficient Statistics in Noisy Environments Using Multi-Template Models Randy GOMEZ Akinobu LEE Tomoki TODA Hiroshi SARUWATARI Kiyohiro SHIKANO Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Vol.E89-D No.3 pp.998-1005 Publication Date: 2006/03/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1361 DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e89-d.3.998 Print ISSN: 0916-8532 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Statistical Modeling for Speech Processing) Category: Speech Recognition Keyword: HMM-Sufficient Statistics, unsupervised, speaker adaptation, noisy environments, Full Text: PDF(940.5KB)>>
Summary: This paper describes the method of using multi-template unsupervised speaker adaptation based on HMM-Sufficient Statistics to push up the adaptation performance while keeping adaptation time within few seconds with just one arbitrary utterance. This adaptation scheme is mainly composed of two processes. The first part is done offline which involves the training of multiple class-dependent acoustic models and the creation of speakers' HMM-Sufficient Statistics based on gender and age. The second part is performed online where adaptation begins using the single utterance of a test speaker. From this utterance, the system will classify the speaker's class and consequently select the N-best neighbor speakers close to the utterance using Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM). The classified speakers' class template model is then adopted as a base model. From this template model, the adapted model is rapidly constructed using the N-best neighbor speakers' HMM-Sufficient Statistics. Experiments in noisy environment conditions with 20 dB, 15 dB and 10 dB SNR office, crowd, booth, and car noise are performed. The proposed multi-template method achieved 89.5% word accuracy rate compared with 88.1% of the conventional single-template method, while the baseline recognition rate without adaptation is 86.4%. Moreover, experiments using Vocal Tract Length Normalization (VTLN) and supervised Maximum Likelihood Linear Regression (MLLR) are also compared. | ||||||||||
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