Low SNR Speech Recognition using SMKL

While traditional speech recognition methods have achieved great success in a number of real word applications, their further applications to some difficult situations, such as Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) signal and local languages, are still limited by their shortcomings in adaption ability. In particular, their robustness to pronunciation level noise is not satisfied enough. To overcome these limitations, in this paper, we propose a novel speech recognition approach for low signal-to-noise ratio signal. The general steps for our speech recognition approach are composed of signal preprocessing, feature extraction and recognition with simple multiple kernel learning (SMKL) method. Then the application of SMKL in speech recognition with low SNR is presented. We evaluate the proposed approach over a standard data set. The experimental results show that the performance of SMKL method for low SNR speech recognition is significantly higher than that of the method based on other popular approaches. Further, SMKL based method can be straightforwardly applied to recognition problem of large scale dataset, high dimension data, and a large amount of isomerism information.