Robust speaker adaptation using a piecewise linear acoustic mapping
- 1 January 1992
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Abstract
In a large vocabulary speech recognition system, it is desirable to make use of previously acquired speech data when encountering new speakers. The authors describe an adaptation strategy based on a piecewise linear mapping between the feature space of a new speaker and that of a reference speaker. This speaker-normalizing mapping is used to transform the previously acquired parameters of the reference speaker onto the space of the new speaker. This results in a robust speaker adaptation procedure which allows for a drastic reduction in the amount of training data required from the new speaker. The performance of this method is illustrated on an isolated utterance speech recognition task with a vocabulary of 20000 words.Keywords
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