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Fast and flexible Kullback-Leibler divergence based acoustic modeling for non-native speech recognition
Type of publication: Idiap-RR
Citation: Imseng_Idiap-RR-01-2012
Number: Idiap-RR-01-2012
Year: 2012
Month: 1
Institution: Idiap
Abstract: One of the main challenge in non-native speech recognition is how to handle acoustic variability present in multiaccented non-native speech with limited amount of training data. In this paper, we investigate an approach that addresses this challenge by using Kullback-Leibler divergence based hidden Markov models (KL-HMM). More precisely, the acoustic variability in the multi-accented speech is handled by using multilingual phoneme posterior probabilities, estimated by a multilayer perceptron trained on auxiliary data, as input feature for the KL-HMM system. With limited training data, we then build better acoustic models by exploiting the advantage that the KL-HMM system has fewer number of parameters. On HIWIRE corpus, the proposed approach yields a performance of 1.9% word error rate (WER) with 149 minutes of training data and a performance of 5.5% WER with 2 minutes of training data.
Keywords: Hidden Markov Model, Kullback-Leibler divergence, multilayer perceptron, Posterior features
Projects Idiap
IM2
Authors Imseng, David
Rasipuram, Ramya
Magimai.-Doss, Mathew
Crossref by Imseng_ASRU_2011
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