Kernel-based speaker clustering for rapid speaker adaptation

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作者
Hazrati, Dooz [1 ]
Ahadi, S. M. [1 ]
Sadjadi, Omid [1 ]
机构
[1] Tehran Polytech, EE Dept, Speech Proc Res Lab, Tehran, Iran
关键词
speaker adaptation; Kernel method; one-class SVM; speaker clustering;
D O I
10.1109/ITNG.2008.176
中图分类号
TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
Speaker clustering is a widely used technique in speaker adaptation, especially since it can be easily combined with adaptation methods such as MAP or MLLR. In this paper we present and evaluate a new speaker adaptation method using a kernel-based speaker clustering algorithm inspired by the classical K-means and based on one-class support vector machines. We find that this adaptation method outperforms other conventional clustering techniques such as K-means and gender clustering with only small amounts of adaptation data (i.e. less than 10sec.).
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页码:1287 / 1289
页数:3
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