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ON REAL-TIME MEAN-AND-VARIANCE NORMALIZATION OF SPEECH RECOGNITION FEATURES

ON REAL-TIME MEAN-AND-VARIANCE NORMALIZATION OF SPEECH RECOGNITION FEATURES. Pere Pujol, Dušan Macho, and Climent NadeuNational ICT TALP Research Center Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. Presenter: Chen, Hung-Bin. Outline. Introduction

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ON REAL-TIME MEAN-AND-VARIANCE NORMALIZATION OF SPEECH RECOGNITION FEATURES

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  1. ON REAL-TIME MEAN-AND-VARIANCE NORMALIZATION OF SPEECH RECOGNITION FEATURES Pere Pujol, Dušan Macho, and Climent NadeuNational ICT TALP Research CenterUniversitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. Presenter: Chen, Hung-Bin

  2. Outline • Introduction • On-line versions of the mean and variance normalization(MVN) • Experiments • Conclusions

  3. Introduction • On real-time system, However, the off-line estimation (MVN) involves a long delay that is likely unacceptable • In this paper, we report an empirical investigation about several on-line versions of the mean and variance normalization(MVN) technique and the factors affecting their performance • Segment-based updating of mean & variance • Recursive updating of mean & variance

  4. INVOLVED IN REAL-TIME MVN • Mean and variance normalization

  5. D n-D/2 n n+D/2 D 0 on-line versions issues • Segment-based updating of mean & variance • there is a delay of half the length of the window • Recursive updating of mean & variance • initialized using the first D frames of the current utterance and then they are recursively updated as new frames arrive

  6. EXPERIMENTAL SETUP AND BASELINE RESULTS • A subset of the office environment recordings from the Spanish version of the Speecon database • carry out the speech recognition experiments with digit strings • The database includes recordings with 4 microphones: • a head-mounted close-talk (CT) • a Lavalier mic • a directional mic situated at 1 meter from the speaker • an omni-directional microphone placed at 2-3 meters from the speaker • 125 speakers were chosen for training and 75 for testing • both balanced in terms of sex and dialect

  7. baseline system results • the resulting parameters were used as features, along with their first- and second-order time derivatives

  8. D n-D/2 n n+D/2 Segment-based updating of mean & variance\ results • a sliding fixed-length window centered in the current frame • there is a delay of half the length of the window

  9. D 0 Recursive updating of mean & variance results • Table 3 shows the results using different look-ahead values in the recursive MVN • The entire look-ahead interval is used to calculate the initial estimates of mean and varianc • in the case of 0 sec, the first 100 ms are used

  10. Recursive updating of mean & variance results • The initial estimates were computed as in UTT-MVN • This reinforces the good initial estimates of mean & variance • In our case β was experimentally set to 0.992

  11. INITIAL MEAN & VARIANCE ESTIMATED FROMPAST DATA ONLY • this category do not use the current utterance to compute the initial estimates of the mean & variance of the features • the different data sources • Current session: • in the current session with fixed microphones, environment and speaker • utterances not included in the test set • Set of sessions: • using utterances from a set of sessions of the Speecon database instead of utterances from the same session

  12. initial with past data results

  13. Conclusions • In that case, a recursive MVN performs better than a segment-based MVN • we observed that • the usefulness of mean and variance updating increases when the initial estimates are not representative enough for a given utterance

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