Frame-wise HMM adaptation using state-dependent reverberation estimates

Sehr A, Maas R, Kellermann W (2011)


Publication Language: English

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2011

Pages Range: 5484-5487

Article Number: 5947600

Event location: Prague CZ

ISBN: 9781457705397

DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5947600

Abstract

A novel frame-wise model adaptation approach for reverberation-robust distant-talking speech recognition is proposed. It adjusts the means of static cepstral features to capture the statistics of reverberant feature vector sequences obtained from distant-talking speech recordings. The means of the HMMs are adapted during decoding using a state-dependent estimate of the late reverberation determined by joint use of a feature-domain reverberation model and optimum partial state sequences. Since the parameters of the HMMs and the reverberation model can be estimated completely independently, the approach is very flexible with respect to changing acoustic environments. Due to the frame-wise model adaptation, some of the HMM limitations are relieved, and recognition results surpassing that of matched reverberant training are obtained at the cost of a moderately increased decoding complexity. © 2011 IEEE.

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APA:

Sehr, A., Maas, R., & Kellermann, W. (2011). Frame-wise HMM adaptation using state-dependent reverberation estimates. In Proceedings of the 36th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011 (pp. 5484-5487). Prague, CZ.

MLA:

Sehr, Armin, Roland Maas, and Walter Kellermann. "Frame-wise HMM adaptation using state-dependent reverberation estimates." Proceedings of the 36th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011, Prague 2011. 5484-5487.

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