Latent variable speaker adaptation of Gaussian mixture weights and means

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4349-4352

  Zhang, Xueru ^a   Demuynck, Kris ^a   Van Hamme, Hugo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

eigenvoice and weight adaptation; fast speaker adaptation; latent variable method; non negative matrix factorization; speaker adaptive training

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE TRAINING; EIGENVOICES; FAST SPEAKER ADAPTATION; LATENT VARIABLE METHODS; NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867600898     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6288882     Document Type: Conference Paper

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