Rapid unsupervised speaker adaptation robust in reverberant environment conditions

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1309-1312

  Gomez, Randy ^a   Even, Jani ^b   Shikano, Kiyohiro ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

HMM sufficient statistics; Robust ASR; Speaker adaptation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE TRAINING; DEREVERBERATION; HMM-SUFFICIENT STATISTICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD LINEAR REGRESSION; MULTIBAND; OFFLINE; PRE-PROCESSING; RAPID ADAPTATION; RAPID UNSUPERVISED SPEAKER ADAPTATION; REFLECTION COMPONENTS; REVERBERANT CONDITION; REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENT; ROBUST ASR; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTIONS; SUFFICIENT STATISTICS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

REVERBERATION;

EID: 84867192083     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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