Title
Investigations into the incorporation of the Ideal Binary Mask in ASR
Abstract
While much work has been dedicated to exploring how best to incorporate the Ideal Binary Mask (IBM) in automatic speech recognition (ASR) for noisy signals, we demonstrate that the simple use of masked speech can outperform standard spectral reconstruction methods. We explore the effects of both the accuracy of the mask estimation and the strength of the language model on our results. The relative performance of these techniques is directly tied to the accuracy of the estimated mask. Although the use of masked speech fails when significant numbers of errors are present, the maximum performance for spectral reconstruction techniques also drops significantly. This implies improvements in mask estimation can provide greater gains in ASR performance than improvements in the incorporation of the IBM in ASR. Previous work may have ignored the direct use of masked speech due to its poor performance on tasks without a strong language model.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5947430
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
masks,speech recognition,ASR,IBM,automatic speech recognition,ideal binary mask,language model,noisy signals,spectral reconstruction techniques,ideal binary mask,robust automatic speech recognition,spectral reconstruction
IBM,Noise measurement,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Signal-to-noise ratio,Speech recognition,Artificial intelligence,Cepstral analysis,Language model,Binary number
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1520-6149 E-ISBN : 978-1-4577-0537-3
978-1-4577-0537-3
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.73
5
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
William Hartmann16410.66
Eric Fosler-Lussier269066.40