Feature compensation based on independent noise estimation for robust speech recognition

In this paper, we propose a novel feature compensation algorithm based on independent noise estimation, which employs a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) with fewer Gaussian components to rapidly estimate the noise parameters from the noisy speech and monitor the noise variation. The estimated noise model is combined with a GMM with sufficient Gaussian mixtures to produce the noisy GMM for the clean speech estimation so that parameters are updated if and only if the noise variation occurs. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can achieve the recognition accuracy similar to that of the traditional GMM-based feature compensation, but significantly reduces the computational cost, and thereby is more useful for resource-limited mobile devices.