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Word Error Rate Minimization Using an Integrated Confidence Measure Akio KOBAYASHI Kazuo ONOE Shinichi HOMMA Shoei SATO Toru IMAI Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Vol.E90-D No.5 pp.835-843 Publication Date: 2007/05/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1361 DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e90-d.5.835 Print ISSN: 0916-8532 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Speech and Hearing Keyword: word error rate minimization, maximum entropy, support vector machines, n-best rescoring, Full Text: PDF(341.8KB)>>
Summary: This paper describes a new criterion for speech recognition using an integrated confidence measure to minimize the word error rate (WER). The conventional criteria for WER minimization obtain the expected WER of a sentence hypothesis merely by comparing it with other hypotheses in an n-best list. The proposed criterion estimates the expected WER by using an integrated confidence measure with word posterior probabilities for a given acoustic input. The integrated confidence measure, which is implemented as a classifier based on maximum entropy (ME) modeling or support vector machines (SVMs), is used to acquire probabilities reflecting whether the word hypotheses are correct. The classifier is comprised of a variety of confidence measures and can deal with a temporal sequence of them to attain a more reliable confidence. Our proposed criterion for minimizing WER achieved a WER of 9.8% and a 3.9% reduction, relative to conventional n-best rescoring methods in transcribing Japanese broadcast news in various environments such as under noisy field and spontaneous speech conditions. | ||||||||||
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