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The aim of this work is to propose a refinement of the shift-MLLR (shift Maximum Likelihood Linear Regression) adaptation of an acoustics model in the case of limited amount of adaptation data, which can lead to ill-conditioned transformations matrices. We try to suppress the influence of badly estimated transformation parameters utilizing the Artificial Neural Network (ANN), especially Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with bottleneck layer on the end. The badly estimated shift-MLLR transformation is propagated through an ANN (suitably trained beforehand), and the output of the net is used as the new refined transformation. To train the ANN the well and the badly conditioned shift-MLLR transformations are used as outputs and inputs of ANN, respectively.
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Zajíc, Z., Zelinka, J., Vaněk, J., Müller, L. (2014). Convolutional Neural Network for Refinement of Speaker Adaptation Transformation. In: Ronzhin, A., Potapova, R., Delic, V. (eds) Speech and Computer. SPECOM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8773. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11581-8_20
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