Title :
Non-native speech recognition based on speaker adaptation
Author :
Wei, Hong ; Pu, Yuanyuan ; Yang, Jian
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Yunnan Univ., Kunming, China
Abstract :
Speaker adaptation is a powerful means of improving the performance of speaker-independent non-native speech recognition system. Based on Yunnan minority Naxi and Lisu accent speech, non-native mandarin speech recognition was implemented applying general speaker adaptation MLLR, MAP and multi-pronunciation dictionary adaptation. In our experiments, the different configuration of feature and methods is discussed. These approaches have been shown to be effective by the experimental results.
Keywords :
maximum likelihood estimation; regression analysis; speaker recognition; Lisu accent speech; Yunnan minority Naxi speech; general speaker adaptation; maximum a posterior; maximum likelihood linear regression; multi-pronunciation dictionary adaptation; non-native mandarin speech recognition; speaker-independent non-native speech recognition system; Acoustics; Adaptation model; Dictionaries; Hidden Markov models; Speech; Speech recognition; Training; HMM; MAP; MLLR; multi-pronunciation dictionary adaptation; non-native speech recognition; speaker adaptation;
Conference_Titel :
Natural Computation (ICNC), 2010 Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Yantai, Shandong
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5958-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICNC.2010.5584305