Rapid online adaptation based on transformation space model evolution

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 194-202

  Kim, Dong Kook ^a   Kim, Nam Soo ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Online adaptation; Prior evolution; Probabilistic principal component analysis; Quasi bayes estimate; Rapid speaker adaptation; Transformation space model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FUNCTIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

FACTOR ANALYSIS; ONLINE ADAPTATION; ONLINE LINEAR REGRESSION; PRIOR EVOLUTION; PROBABILISTIC PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUASI-BAYES ESTIMATE; RAPID SPEAKER ADAPTATION; TRANSFORMATION SPACE MODEL;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 14644409729     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2004.841427     Document Type: Article

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