Abstract
This paper describes a performance prediction technique of a speech recognition system using a small amount of target speakers' data. In the conventional HMM-based technique, a speaker-dependent model was used and thus a considerable amount of training data was needed. To reduce the amount of training data, we introduce an average voice model as a prior knowledge for the target speakers' acoustic models, and adapt it to the target speakers' ones using speaker adaptation. Experimental results show that the use of average voice model effectively save the amount of training data of the target speakers, and the prediction accuracy is significantly improved compared to the conventional technique especially when a smaller amount of training data is available.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1953-1956 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH |
Publication status | Published - 2011 Dec 1 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2011 - Florence, Italy Duration: 2011 Aug 27 → 2011 Aug 31 |
Keywords
- Average-voice-based speech synthesis
- Performance prediction
- Speaker adaptation
- Speech recognition
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Signal Processing
- Software
- Modelling and Simulation