Title :
Speaker adaptation technique for HMM model
Author :
Kwong, S. ; He, Q.-H. ; Man, K.F. ; Tang, K.S.
Author_Institution :
City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
fDate :
10/14/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A new speaker adaptation technique for the hidden Markov model (HMM) based on the maximum model distance (Kwong, 1998; He, 1999) approach is presented. Experimental results have shown that this technique provides good performance even with a small amount of adaptation data. When these results are compared with those from the Baum-Welch approach and the stochastic matching approaches (Sank, 1996), it is found that the presented approach provides the best performance
Keywords :
hidden Markov models; speaker recognition; HMM model; adaptation data; hidden Markov model; maximum model distance; speaker adaptation technique;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19991273
