NDLI: Exploring HLDA based transformation for reducing acoustic mismatch in context of children speech recognition

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Author	Kathania, H.K. Shahnawazuddin, S. Sinha, R.
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Nat. Inst. of Technol. Sikkim, Ravangla, India (Kathania, H.K.) \|\| Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol. Guwahati, Guwahati, India (Shahnawazuddin, S.; Sinha, R.)
Abstract	This work presents novel approaches for reducing acoustic mismatch in case of children's speech recognition using acoustic models trained on adults' speech data. In this regard, heteroscedastic linear discriminant analysis (HLDA) based transformation of test data is explored. It is well known that HLDA reduces the dimensionality of the feature parameters and also increases the discrimination among them at the same time. Consequently, unlike cepstral truncation based approach, the affects of pitch mismatch are mitigated without any significant loss in spectral information. This leads to improved system performance as reported in this work. Furthermore, the impact of model retraining after the transformation is also explored. Model retraining after HLDA based transformation is found to result in added improvements. A constrained approach of generating and employing HLDA based transformation is also proposed. In this case, HLDA based transforms are learned using the base MFCC features only and then applied to all the feature dimensions, i.e., base, delta and delta-delta features. The constrained approach is found to be superior than the unconstrained scheme. This work also reports the impact of iterative transform learning approach on the system performance. The iterative approach of learning the HLDA based transform is reported to be better than the non-iterative approach.
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File Size	203338
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e-ISBN	9781479946655
DOI	10.1109/SPCOM.2014.6983999
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-07-22
Publisher Place	India
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	children's speech recognition Hidden Markov models Speech recognition Transforms acoustic mismatch Speech Data models Mel frequency cepstral coefficient HLDA transformation Automatic speech recognition
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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