Dimensionality reduction for speaker normalization and speaker and environment adaptation using eigenvoice techniques
US6343267B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 4, 1998 |
| Grant date | Jan 29, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 4, 2018 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F18/2135
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A set of speaker dependent models or adapted models is trained upon a comparatively large number of training speakers, one model per speaker, and model parameters are extracted in a predefined order to construct a set of supervectors, one per speaker. Dimensionality reduction is then performed on the set of supervectors to generate a set of eigenvectors that define an eigenvoice space. If desired, the number of vectors may be reduced to achieve data compression. Thereafter, a new speaker provides adaptation data from which a supervector is constructed by constraining this supervector to be in the eigenvoice space based on a maximum likelihood estimation. The resulting coefficients in the eigenspace of this new speaker may then be used to construct a new set of model parameters from which an adapted model is constructed for that speaker. The adapted model may then be further adapted via MAP, MLLR, MLED or the like. The eigenvoice technique may be applied to MLLR transformation matrices or the like; Bayesian estimation performed in eigenspace uses prior knowledge about speaker space density to refine the estimate about the location of a new speaker in eigenspace.
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