Nikiforov
Vladimir O.
D.Sc., Prof.
doi: 10.17586/2226-1494-2016-16-1-195-197
SPEAKER-DEPENDENT FEATURES FOR SPONTANEOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION
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For citation: Medennikov I.P. Speaker-dependent features for spontaneous speech recognition. Scientific and Technical Journal of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, 2016, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 195–197.
Abstract
This paper presents the results of the study on improving robustness to the acoustic variability of the speech signal for spontaneous speech recognition system. The method is proposed to constructing high-level bottleneck features using deep neural network adapted to a speaker and to acoustic environment with i-vectors. The proposed method provides 11,9% relative reduction of word error rate in Russian spontaneous telephone speech recognition task.
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