Ensemble speaker modeling using speaker adaptive training deep neural network for speaker adaptation

In this paper we investigate the GMM-derived (GMMD) features for adaptation of deep neural network (DNN) acoustic models. The adaptation of the DNN trained on GMMD features is done through the maximum a posteriori (MAP) adaptation of the auxiliary GMM model used for GMMD feature extraction. We explore fusion of the adapted GMMD features with conventional features, such as bottleneck and MFCC features, in two different neural network architectures: DNN and time-delay neural network (TDNN). We analyze and compare different types of adaptation techniques such as i-vectors and feature-space adaptation techniques based on maximum likelihood linear regression (fMLLR) with the proposed adaptation approach, and explore their complementarity using various types of fusion such as feature level, posterior level, lattice level and others in order to discover the best possible way of combination. Experimental results on the TED-LIUM corpus show that the proposed adaptation technique can be effectively integrated into DNN and TDNN setups at different levels and provide additional gain in recognition performance: up to 6% of relative word error rate reduction (WERR) over the strong feature-space adaptation techniques based on maximum likelihood linear regression (fMLLR) speaker adapted DNN baseline, and up to 18% of relative WERR in comparison with a speaker independent (SI) DNN baseline model, trained on conventional features. For TDNN models the proposed approach achieves up to 26% of relative WERR in comparison with a SI baseline, and up 13% in comparison with the model adapted by using i-vectors. The analysis of the adapted GMMD features from various points of view demonstrates their effectiveness at different levels.

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Ensemble speaker modeling using speaker adaptive training deep neural network for speaker adaptation

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