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iVector Approach to Phonotactic Language Recognition

SOUFIFAR Mehdi, KOCKMANN Marcel, BURGET Lukáš, PLCHOT Oldřich, GLEMBEK Ondřej and SVENDSEN Torbjorn. iVector Approach to Phonotactic Language Recognition. In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2011. Florence: International Speech Communication Association, 2011, pp. 2913-2916. ISBN 978-1-61839-270-1. ISSN 1990-9772.
Czech title
iVektorový přístup k fonotaktickému rozpoznávání jazyka
Type
conference paper
Language
english
Authors
Soufifar Mehdi (NTNU)
Kockmann Marcel, Dipl.-Ing. (DCGM FIT BUT)
Burget Lukáš, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM FIT BUT)
Plchot Oldřich, Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM FIT BUT)
Glembek Ondřej, Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM FIT BUT)
Svendsen Torbjorn (NTNU)
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Keywords

language recognition, subspace modeling, multinomial distribution

Abstract

We proposed a novel method to extract the iVectors by means of subspace multinomial modelling of the n-gram counts. Using the proposed subspace model, the huge vector of the n-gram counts are represented by the low-dimensional iVector while preserving the discriminative power of the vector.

Annotation

This paper addresses a novel technique for representation and processing of n-gram counts in phonotactic language recognition (LRE): subspace multinomial modelling represents the vectors of n-gram counts by low dimensional vectors of coordinates in total variability subspace, called iVector. Two techniques for iVector scoring are tested: support vector machines (SVM), and logistic regression (LR). Using standard NIST LRE 2009 task as our evaluation set, the latter scoring approach was shown to outperform phonotactic LRE system based on direct SVM classification of n-gram count vectors. The proposed iVector paradigm also shows comparable results to previously proposed PCA-based phonotactic feature extraction.

Published
2011
Pages
2913-2916
Journal
Proceedings of Interspeech - on-line, vol. 2011, no. 8, ISSN 1990-9772
Proceedings
Proceedings of Interspeech 2011
Conference
Interspeech Conference, Florence, IT
ISBN
978-1-61839-270-1
Publisher
International Speech Communication Association
Place
Florence, IT
EID Scopus
BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB9758,
   author = "Mehdi Soufifar and Marcel Kockmann and Luk\'{a}\v{s} Burget and Old\v{r}ich Plchot and Ond\v{r}ej Glembek and Torbjorn Svendsen",
   title = "iVector Approach to Phonotactic Language Recognition",
   pages = "2913--2916",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of Interspeech 2011",
   journal = "Proceedings of Interspeech - on-line",
   volume = 2011,
   number = 8,
   year = 2011,
   location = "Florence, IT",
   publisher = "International Speech Communication Association",
   ISBN = "978-1-61839-270-1",
   ISSN = "1990-9772",
   language = "english",
   url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/9758"
}
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