Incremental MLLR speaker adaptation by fuzzy logic control

  • Authors:
  • Ing-Jr Ding

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu 30050, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper presents a fuzzy control mechanism for conventional maximum likelihood linear regression (MLLR) speaker adaptation, called FLC-MLLR, by which the effect of MLLR adaptation is regulated according to the availability of adaptation data in such a way that the advantage of MLLR adaptation could be fully exploited when the training data are sufficient, or the consequence of poor MLLR adaptation would be restrained otherwise. The robustness of MLLR adaptation against data scarcity is thus ensured. The proposed mechanism is conceptually simple and computationally inexpensive and effective; the experiments in recognition rate show that FLC-MLLR outperforms standard MLLR especially when encountering data insufficiency and performs better than MAPLR at much less computing cost.