IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information
Variable Selection Linear Regression for Robust Speech Recognition
Summary :
This study proposes a variable selection linear regression (VSLR) adaptation framework to improve the accuracy of automatic speech recognition (ASR) with only limited and unlabeled adaptation data. The proposed framework can be divided into three phases. The first phase prepares multiple variable subsets by applying a ranking filter to the original regression variable set. The second phase determines the best variable subset based on a pre-determined performance evaluation criterion and computes a linear regression (LR) mapping function based on the determined subset. The third phase performs adaptation in either model or feature spaces. The three phases can select the optimal components and remove redundancies in the LR mapping function effectively and thus enable VSLR to provide satisfactory adaptation performance even with a very limited number of adaptation statistics. We formulate model space VSLR and feature space VSLR by integrating the VS techniques into the conventional LR adaptation systems. Experimental results on the Aurora-4 task show that model space VSLR and feature space VSLR, respectively, outperform standard maximum likelihood linear regression (MLLR) and feature space MLLR (fMLLR) and their extensions, with notable word error rate (WER) reductions in a per-utterance unsupervised adaptation manner.
- Publication
- IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E97-D No.6 pp.1477-1487
- Publication Date
- 2014/06/01
- Publicized
- Online ISSN
- 1745-1361
- DOI
- 10.1587/transinf.E97.D.1477
- Type of Manuscript
- Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Advances in Modeling for Real-world Speech Information Processing and its Application)
- Category
- Speech Recognition
Authors
Yu TSAO
Academia Sinica
Ting-Yao HU
National Taiwan University
Sakriani SAKTI
Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Satoshi NAKAMURA
Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Lin-shan LEE
National Taiwan University
Keyword
Latest Issue
Copyrights notice of machine-translated contents
The copyright of the original papers published on this site belongs to IEICE. Unauthorized use of the original or translated papers is prohibited. See IEICE Provisions on Copyright for details.
Cite this
Copy
Yu TSAO, Ting-Yao HU, Sakriani SAKTI, Satoshi NAKAMURA, Lin-shan LEE, "Variable Selection Linear Regression for Robust Speech Recognition" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information,
vol. E97-D, no. 6, pp. 1477-1487, June 2014, doi: 10.1587/transinf.E97.D.1477.
Abstract: This study proposes a variable selection linear regression (VSLR) adaptation framework to improve the accuracy of automatic speech recognition (ASR) with only limited and unlabeled adaptation data. The proposed framework can be divided into three phases. The first phase prepares multiple variable subsets by applying a ranking filter to the original regression variable set. The second phase determines the best variable subset based on a pre-determined performance evaluation criterion and computes a linear regression (LR) mapping function based on the determined subset. The third phase performs adaptation in either model or feature spaces. The three phases can select the optimal components and remove redundancies in the LR mapping function effectively and thus enable VSLR to provide satisfactory adaptation performance even with a very limited number of adaptation statistics. We formulate model space VSLR and feature space VSLR by integrating the VS techniques into the conventional LR adaptation systems. Experimental results on the Aurora-4 task show that model space VSLR and feature space VSLR, respectively, outperform standard maximum likelihood linear regression (MLLR) and feature space MLLR (fMLLR) and their extensions, with notable word error rate (WER) reductions in a per-utterance unsupervised adaptation manner.
URL: https://global.ieice.org/en_transactions/information/10.1587/transinf.E97.D.1477/_p
Copy
@ARTICLE{e97-d_6_1477,
author={Yu TSAO, Ting-Yao HU, Sakriani SAKTI, Satoshi NAKAMURA, Lin-shan LEE, },
journal={IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information},
title={Variable Selection Linear Regression for Robust Speech Recognition},
year={2014},
volume={E97-D},
number={6},
pages={1477-1487},
abstract={This study proposes a variable selection linear regression (VSLR) adaptation framework to improve the accuracy of automatic speech recognition (ASR) with only limited and unlabeled adaptation data. The proposed framework can be divided into three phases. The first phase prepares multiple variable subsets by applying a ranking filter to the original regression variable set. The second phase determines the best variable subset based on a pre-determined performance evaluation criterion and computes a linear regression (LR) mapping function based on the determined subset. The third phase performs adaptation in either model or feature spaces. The three phases can select the optimal components and remove redundancies in the LR mapping function effectively and thus enable VSLR to provide satisfactory adaptation performance even with a very limited number of adaptation statistics. We formulate model space VSLR and feature space VSLR by integrating the VS techniques into the conventional LR adaptation systems. Experimental results on the Aurora-4 task show that model space VSLR and feature space VSLR, respectively, outperform standard maximum likelihood linear regression (MLLR) and feature space MLLR (fMLLR) and their extensions, with notable word error rate (WER) reductions in a per-utterance unsupervised adaptation manner.},
keywords={},
doi={10.1587/transinf.E97.D.1477},
ISSN={1745-1361},
month={June},}
Copy
TY - JOUR
TI - Variable Selection Linear Regression for Robust Speech Recognition
T2 - IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information
SP - 1477
EP - 1487
AU - Yu TSAO
AU - Ting-Yao HU
AU - Sakriani SAKTI
AU - Satoshi NAKAMURA
AU - Lin-shan LEE
PY - 2014
DO - 10.1587/transinf.E97.D.1477
JO - IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information
SN - 1745-1361
VL - E97-D
IS - 6
JA - IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information
Y1 - June 2014
AB - This study proposes a variable selection linear regression (VSLR) adaptation framework to improve the accuracy of automatic speech recognition (ASR) with only limited and unlabeled adaptation data. The proposed framework can be divided into three phases. The first phase prepares multiple variable subsets by applying a ranking filter to the original regression variable set. The second phase determines the best variable subset based on a pre-determined performance evaluation criterion and computes a linear regression (LR) mapping function based on the determined subset. The third phase performs adaptation in either model or feature spaces. The three phases can select the optimal components and remove redundancies in the LR mapping function effectively and thus enable VSLR to provide satisfactory adaptation performance even with a very limited number of adaptation statistics. We formulate model space VSLR and feature space VSLR by integrating the VS techniques into the conventional LR adaptation systems. Experimental results on the Aurora-4 task show that model space VSLR and feature space VSLR, respectively, outperform standard maximum likelihood linear regression (MLLR) and feature space MLLR (fMLLR) and their extensions, with notable word error rate (WER) reductions in a per-utterance unsupervised adaptation manner.
ER -
English
