Journal of Xidian University ›› 2016, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (2): 102-107.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-2400.2016.02.018

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Regularized discriminative segmental feature transform method

CHEN Bin;ZHANG Lianhai;QU Dan;LI Bicheng   

  1. (Institute of Information System Engineering, PLA Information Engineering Univ., Zhengzhou  450001, China)
  • Received:2014-12-04 Online:2016-04-20 Published:2016-05-27
  • Contact: CHEN Bin E-mail:chenbin873335@163.com

Abstract:

In order to improve the stability of the frame based feature transform method, a segment based discriminative feature transform method is proposed, and the feature transform matrix of each speech segment is determined using the regularization technique. In the novel method, the feature transform is viewed as a parameter selection problem with limited data. In the training stage, an over-complete dictionary is constructed by the feature transform matrices of tied-state based region dependent linear transform. During testing, after the speech signal is segmented through force alignment, an appropriate regularization term is added to the likelihood objective function. An optimal subset of the transform matrices is selected from the dictionary and their corresponding coefficients are estimated following the fast iterative shrinkage thresholding optimization algorithm. Experimental results show that compared with the tied-state RDLT method, after combining L1 and L2 regularization, the recognition rate is increased by 1.30% using the maximum likelihood training criterion. The performance gain is increased to 1.66% after discriminative training.

Key words: feature transform, speech recognition, region dependent, regularization, discriminative training

CLC Number: 

  • TN912.3