Acoustic model adaptation based on coarse/fine training of transfer vectors and its application to a speaker adaptation task

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 2933-2936

  Watanabe, Shinji ^a   Nakamura, Atsushi ^a  

^a NTT Corporation   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC MODEL ADAPTATION; ADAPTATION TECHNIQUES; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHODS; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; TRAINING ALGORITHMS; VECTOR ESTIMATION;

VECTORS;

EID: 85009135071     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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