An i-vector based approach to acoustic sniffing for irrelevant variability normalization based acoustic model training and speech recognition

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1701-1704

  Xu, Jian ^a,b   Zhang, Yu ^a,c   Yan, Zhi Jie ^a   Huo, Qiang ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acoustic modeling; I vector; Irrelevant variability normalization; LVCSR; Unsupervised online adaption

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODELING; I-VECTOR; IRRELEVANT VARIABILITY NORMALIZATION; LVCSR; UNSUPERVISED ONLINE ADAPTION;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

VECTORS;

EID: 84865722206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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