Continuous speech recognition using an on-line speaker adaptation method based on automatic speaker clustering

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E86-D, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 464-473

  Zhang, Wei ^a   Nakagawa, Seiichi ^a  

^a TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

MAP; MLLR; Speaker adaptation; Speaker clustering; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

AUTOMATIC SPEAKER CLUSTERING;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0038381713     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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