Speaker adaptation through vector quantization

Vector quantization (VQ) is a technique that reduces the computation amount and memory size drastically. In this paper, speaker adaptation algorithms through VQ are proposed in order to improve speaker-independent recognition. The speaker adaptation algorithms use VQ codebooks of a reference speaker and an input speaker. Speaker adaptation is performed by substituting vectors in the codebook of a reference speaker for vectors of the input speaker´s codebook, or vice versa. To confirm the effectiveness of these algorithms, word recognition experiments are carried out using the IBM office correspondence task uttered by 11 speakers. The total number of words is 1174 for each speaker, and the number of different words is 422. The average word recognition rate using different speaker´s reference through speaker adaptation is 80.9%, and the rate within the second choice is 92.0%.