Abstract-A speech enhancement algorithm that is based on a connected-word hidden Markov model (HMM) is developed. Speech is assumed to be highly degraded by statistically independent additive noise. The minimum mean square error estimator is derived for a connected-word HMM. Further, we derive an estimator based on a connected-word HMM with explicit state duration. Listening experiments performed with digit strings have shown an increase of intelligibility. The best results were achieved when subjects who listened to the enhanced speech were given the results of an automatic recognition system. Index Terms-Noise reduction, robustness in the presence of noise, speech recognition
This paper focuses on estimating clustering validity by using logistic regression. For many applications it might be important to estimate the quality of the clustering, e.g. in case of speech segments' clustering, make a decision whether to use the clustered data for speaker verification. In the case of short segments speakers clustering, the common criteria for cluster validity are average cluster purity (ACP), average speaker purity (ASP) and K -the geometric mean between the two measures. As in practice, true labels are not available for evaluation, hence they have to be estimated from the clustering itself. In this paper, meanshift clustering with PLDA score is applied in order to cluster short speaker segments represented as i-vectors. Different statistical parameters are then estimated on the clustered data and are used to train logistic regression to estimate ACP, ASP and K. It was found that logistic regression can be a good predictor of the actual ACP, ASP and K, and yields reasonable information regarding the clustering quality. Index Terms: Cluster validity, Logistic Regression, I-vectors, Mean-shift, PLDA.As for the proposed mean-shift, a PLDA score is required, so before performing clustering we train the universal background model (UBM) and the total variability (TV) matrix for i-vectors extraction. We also train the PCA matrix T , and the
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