Learning hidden unit contributions for unsupervised acoustic model adaptation

P Swietojanski, J Li, S Renals - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a broad study on the adaptation of neural network acoustic models by
means of learning hidden unit contributions (LHUC)-a method that linearly re-combines …

Detection of acoustic impulse events in voice applications using a neural network

SPV Ebenezer - US Patent 10,475,471, 2019 - Google Patents
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an integrated circuit for
implementing at least a portion of an audio device may include an audio output configured …

Learning to adapt: a meta-learning approach for speaker adaptation

O Klejch, J Fainberg, P Bell - arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.10239, 2018 - arxiv.org
The performance of automatic speech recognition systems can be improved by adapting an
acoustic model to compensate for the mismatch between training and testing conditions, for …

Structured output layer with auxiliary targets for context-dependent acoustic modelling

P Swietojanski, P Bell, S Renals - INTERSPEECH 2015 16th …, 2015 - research.ed.ac.uk
In previous work we have introduced a multi-task training technique for neural network
acoustic modelling, in which context-dependent and context-independent targets are jointly …

SAT-LHUC: Speaker adaptive training for learning hidden unit contributions

P Swietojanski, S Renais - 2016 IEEE International Conference …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper extends learning hidden unit contributions (LHUC) unsupervised speaker
adaptation with speaker adaptive training (SAT). Contrary to other SAT approaches, the …

Differentiable pooling for unsupervised acoustic model adaptation

P Swietojanski, S Renals - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a deep neural network (DNN) acoustic model that includes parametrised and
differentiable pooling operators. Unsupervised acoustic model adaptation is cast as the …

Detection of acoustic impulse events in voice applications

SPV Ebenezer - US Patent 10,242,696, 2019 - Google Patents
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an integrated circuit for
implementing at least a portion of an audio device may include an audio output configured …

Combination of multiple acoustic models with unsupervised adaptation for lecture speech transcription

P Shen, X Lu, X Hu, N Kanda, M Saiko, C Hori… - Speech …, 2016 - Elsevier
Automatic speech recognition systems (ASR) have achieved considerable progress in real
applications because of skilled design of the architecture with advanced techniques and …

Learning representations for speech recognition using artificial neural networks

P Swietojanski - 2016 - era.ed.ac.uk
Learning representations is a central challenge in machine learning. For speech
recognition, we are interested in learning robust representations that are stable across …

Learning to adapt: meta-learning approaches for speaker adaptation

O Klejch - 2020 - era.ed.ac.uk
The performance of automatic speech recognition systems degrades rapidly when there is a
mismatch between training and testing conditions. One way to compensate for this mismatch …