Speaker adaptation using variational Bayesian linear regression in normalized feature space

13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 802-805

  Hahm, Seong Jun ^a   Ogawa, Atsunori ^a   Fujimoto, Masakiyo ^a   Hori, Takaaki ^a   Nakamura, Atsushi ^a  

^a NTT Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Normalized feature space; SMAPLR; Speaker adaptation; VBLR

Indexed keywords

CORPUS OF SPONTANEOUS JAPANESE; FEATURE SPACE; LARGE VOCABULARY CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; SMAPLR; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; VARIATIONAL BAYESIAN; VBLR;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84878411087     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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