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Efficient speaker and noise normalization for robust speech recognition
Raghavendra R. Bilgi,
Published in
2011
Pages: 2601 - 2604
Abstract
In this paper, we describe a computationally efficient approach for combining speaker and noise normalization techniques. In particular, we combine the simple yet effective Histogram Equalization (HEQ) for noise compensation with Vocal-tract length normalization (VTLN) for speaker-normalization. While it is intuitive to remove noise first and then perform VTLN, this is difficult since HEQ performs noise compensation in the cepstral domain, while VTLN involves warping in spectral domain. In this paper, we investigate the use of the recently proposed T-VTLN approach to speaker normalization where matrix transformations are directly applied on cepstral features. We show that the speaker-specific warp-factors estimated even from noisy speech using this approach closely match those from clean-speech. Further, using sub-band HEQ (S-HEQ) and TVTLN we get a significant relative improvement of 20% and an impressive 33.54% over baseline in recognition accuracy for Aurora-2 and Aurora-4 task respectively. Copyright © 2011 ISCA.
About the journal
JournalProceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
ISSN19909772
Open AccessNo
Concepts (8)
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    HEQ
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    NOISE COMPENSATION
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    Robust features
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    Subbands
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    T-VTLN
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    VTLN
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    Face recognition
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    Speech recognition