Speaker-adaptation for hybrid HMM-ANN continuous speech recognition system
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چکیده
It is well known that recognition performance degrades signi cantly when moving from a speakerdependent to a speaker-independent system. Traditional hidden Markov model (HMM) systems have successfully applied speaker-adaptation approaches to reduce this degradation. In this paper we present and evaluate some techniques for speaker-adaptation of a hybrid HMM-arti cial neural network (ANN) continuous speech recognition system. These techniques are applied to a well trained, speaker-independent, hybrid HMM-ANN system and the recognizer parameters are adapted to a new speaker through o -line procedures. The techniques are evaluated on the DARPA RM corpus using varying amounts of adaptation material and different ANN architectures. The results show that speaker-adaptation within the hybrid framework can substantially improve system performance.
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