Speaker adaptation of DNN-based ASR with i-vectors: Does it actually adapt models to speakers?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3007-3011

  Rouvier, Mickael ^a   Favre, Benoit ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIV   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTIC CONDITIONS; ACOUSTIC FEATURES; ACOUSTIC MODEL; DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPEAKER CLUSTERING; SPECIFIC INFORMATION; UNSUPERVISED SPEAKER ADAPTATION;

VECTORS;

EID: 84910073132     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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