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BUT BABEL System for Spontaneous Cantonese

KARAFIÁT Martin, GRÉZL František, HANNEMANN Mirko, VESELÝ Karel and ČERNOCKÝ Jan. BUT BABEL System for Spontaneous Cantonese. In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2013. Lyon: International Speech Communication Association, 2013, pp. 2589-2593. ISBN 978-1-62993-443-3. ISSN 2308-457X.
Czech title
BUT BABEL systém pro spontání kantonštinu
Type
conference paper
Language
english
Authors
URL
Keywords

speech recognition, discriminative training, bottle-neck neural networks, region-dependent transforms

Abstract

This article describes the novel things we have brought to our BABEL Cantonese system include 6-layer Stacked Bottle-Neck features and using f0 at the input of this NN. We have also investigated into robustness of SBN training (silence, normalization) and shown an efficient combination with PLP and (again!) F0 features using Region-Dependent transforms. Last by not least, a combination of RDT with another popular adaptation technique (SAT) was shown beneficial.

Annotation

This paper presents our work on speech recognition of Cantonese spontaneous telephone conversations. The key-points include feature extraction by 6-layer Stacked Bottle-Neck neural network and using fundamental frequency information at its input. We have also investigated into robustness of SBN training (silence, normalization) and shown an efficient combination with PLP using Region-Dependent transforms. A combination of RDT with another popular adaptation technique (SAT) was shown beneficial. The results are reported on BABEL Cantonese data.

Published
2013
Pages
2589-2593
Journal
Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2013)., no. 8, ISSN 2308-457X
Proceedings
Proceedings of Interspeech 2013
Conference
Interspeech Conference, Lyon, FR
ISBN
978-1-62993-443-3
Publisher
International Speech Communication Association
Place
Lyon, FR
BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB10423,
   author = "Martin Karafi\'{a}t and Franti\v{s}ek Gr\'{e}zl and Mirko Hannemann and Karel Vesel\'{y} and Jan \v{C}ernock\'{y}",
   title = "BUT BABEL System for Spontaneous Cantonese",
   pages = "2589--2593",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of Interspeech 2013",
   journal = "Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2013).",
   number = 8,
   year = 2013,
   location = "Lyon, FR",
   publisher = "International Speech Communication Association",
   ISBN = "978-1-62993-443-3",
   ISSN = "2308-457X",
   language = "english",
   url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/10423"
}
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