This paper is an analysis of adaptation techniques for French acoustic models (hidden Markov models). The LVCSR engine Julius, the Hidden Markov Model Toolkit (HTK) and the K-Fold CV technique are used together to build three different adaptation methods: Maximum Likelihood a priori (ML) , Maximum Likelihood Linear Regression (MLLR) and Maximum a posteriori (MAP). Experimental results by means of word and phoneme error rate indicate that the best adaptation method depends on the adaptation data, and that the acoustic models performance can be improved by the use of alignments at phoneme-level and K-Fold Cross Validation (CV). The very known K-Fold CV technique will point to the best adaptation technique to follow considering each case of data type.
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