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Title | ||
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Evaluation of the robustness of the polynomial segment models to noisy environments with unsupervised adaptation |
Abstract | ||
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Recently, the polynomial segment models (PSMs) have been shown to be a competitive alternative to the HMM in large vocabulary continuous recognition task [Li, C., Siu, M., Au-yeung, S., 2006. Recursive likelihood evaluation and fast search algorithm for polynomial segment model with application to speech recognition. IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 14, 1704-1708]. Its more constrained nature raises the issue of robustness under environmental mis-matches. In this paper, we examine the robustness properties of PSMs using the Aurora 4 corpus under both clean training and multi-conditional training. In addition, we generalize two unsupervised model adaptation schemes, namely, the maximum likelihood linear regression (MLLR) and reference speaker weighting (RSW), to be applicable for PSMs and explore their effectiveness in PSM environmental adaptation. Our experiments showed that although the word error rate differences between PSMs and HMMs became smaller under noisy test environments than under clean test environment, PSMs were still competitive under mis-match conditions. After model adaptation, especially with the RSW adaptation, the word error rates were reduced for both HMMs and PSMs. The best word error rate was obtained with RSW-adapted PSMs by rescoring lattices generated with the adapted HMMs. Overall, with model adaptation, the recognition word error rate can be reduced by more than 20%. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2008 | 10.1016/j.specom.2008.04.007 | Speech Communication |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
unsupervised model adaptation scheme,model adaptation,word error rate,robustness,unsupervised adaptation,psm environmental adaptation,polynomial segment model,rsw adaptation,best word error rate,rsw-adapted psms,polynomial segment models,word error rate difference,adaptation,aurora 4,recognition word error rate,speech recognition,search algorithm | Speech processing,Weighting,Search algorithm,Pattern recognition,Polynomial,Computer science,Segmentation,Word error rate,Robustness (computer science),Speech recognition,Artificial intelligence,Hidden Markov model | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
50 | 10 | Speech Communication |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 42 |
Authors | ||
2 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Jeff Siu-Kei Au-Yeung | 1 | 64 | 7.75 |
| Manhung Siu | 2 | 464 | 61.40 |