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In this work we present an approach to adapt speaker-independent recognizers to a new acoustical environment. The recognizers were trained with data which were recorded using a close-talking microphone. These recognizers are to be evaluated with distant-talking microphone data. The adaptation set was recorded with the same type of microphone. In order to keep the speaker-independency this set includes 33 speakers. The adaptation itself is done using maximum a posteriori (MAP) and maximum likelihood linear regression adaptation (MLLR) in combination with the Baum-Welch algorithm. Furthermore the close-talking training data were artificially reverberated to reduce the mismatch between training and test data. In this manner the performance could be increased from 9.9 % WA to 40.0 % WA in speaker-open conditions. If further speaker-dependent adaptation is applied this rate is increased up to 54.9 % WA.
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Maier, A., Haderlein, T., Nöth, E. (2006). Environmental Adaptation with a Small Data Set of the Target Domain. In: Sojka, P., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4188. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11846406_54
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