In this paper we present the results obtained when evaluating the Natural Numbers Recognizer of Telefónica I+D over some particular dialects of Spanish from Spain and America. The evaluation was made over two different data sets corresponding to two different situations. A first set includes dialects of Spanish from Spain, that were considered in the training and design of our baseline system, and a second set corresponds to Argentinian Spanish, that was not considered to train the original system. Just because we are interested in a system able to be used by a wide range of users, we tested the possibilities of MAP (Maximum-A-Priori techniques) to adapt the original HMMs in order to represent all the dialects. The experimental results show the capabilities of our recognizer to be used in applications spread over a great number of Spanishspeaking countries.
Minimum Classification Error (MCE) has shown to be effective in improving the performance of a speaker identification system [1]. However, there are still problems to solve, such as the variability of the voice characteristics of a particular speaker through time.In this work, we analyze the degradation of a GMM-based textindependent speaker identification system when using test data recorded over 6 months after the training session. And trying to avoid this degradation we study the use of supervised adaptation based on Maximum a Posteriori (MAP), and MCE. These techniques have been shown to provide good results for speaker adaptation in speech recognition.The major result we have obtained is that by starting with GMM models trained with only speech from session 1, similar identification results can be obtained for all the other sessions using an incremental adaptation using only 2.5 seconds of speech per speaker and session as data for the MCE training adaptation procedure. We have also found that, in our extreme experimental setup, MAP becomes unhelpful when combined with MCE adaptation.
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