Fast speaker adaptation using multi-stream based eigenvoice in noisy environments

  • Authors:

  • Hwa Jeon Song;Hyung Soon Kim

  • Affiliations:

  • Research Institute of Computer Information and Communications, Pusan National University, Busan, Korea;Department Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, Korea

  • Venue:
  • TSD'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper, the multi-stream based eigenvoice method is proposed in order to overcome the weak points of conventional eigenvoice and dimensional eigenvoice methods in fast speaker adaptation In the proposed method, multi-streams are automatically constructed by a method of the statistical clustering analysis that uses the information acquired by correlation between dimensions To obtain the reliable distance matrix from the covariance matrix in order to divide full dimensions into the optimal number of streams, MAP adaptation technique is employed on the covariance matrix of training data and the sample covariance of adaptation data According to vocabulary-independent word recognition experiment with several car noise levels and supervised adaptation mode, we obtained 29% and 31% relative improvements with 5 and 50 adaptation words at 20dB SNR in comparison with conventional eigenvoice, respectively We also obtained 26% and 53% relative improvements with 5 and 50 adaptation words at 10dB SNR, respectively.