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Time-Contrastive Learning Based Deep Bottleneck Features for Text-Dependent Speaker Verification
There are a number of studies about extraction of bottleneck (BN) features
from deep neural networks (DNNs)trained to discriminate speakers, pass-phrases
and triphone states for improving the performance of text-dependent speaker
verification (TD-SV). However, a moderate success has been achieved. A recent
study [1] presented a time contrastive learning (TCL) concept to explore the
non-stationarity of brain signals for classification of brain states. Speech
signals have similar non-stationarity property, and TCL further has the
advantage of having no need for labeled data. We therefore present a TCL based
BN feature extraction method. The method uniformly partitions each speech
utterance in a training dataset into a predefined number of multi-frame
segments. Each segment in an utterance corresponds to one class, and class
labels are shared across utterances. DNNs are then trained to discriminate all
speech frames among the classes to exploit the temporal structure of speech. In
addition, we propose a segment-based unsupervised clustering algorithm to
re-assign class labels to the segments. TD-SV experiments were conducted on the
RedDots challenge database. The TCL-DNNs were trained using speech data of
fixed pass-phrases that were excluded from the TD-SV evaluation set, so the
learned features can be considered phrase-independent. We compare the
performance of the proposed TCL bottleneck (BN) feature with those of
short-time cepstral features and BN features extracted from DNNs discriminating
speakers, pass-phrases, speaker+pass-phrase, as well as monophones whose labels
and boundaries are generated by three different automatic speech recognition
(ASR) systems. Experimental results show that the proposed TCL-BN outperforms
cepstral features and speaker+pass-phrase discriminant BN features, and its
performance is on par with those of ASR derived BN features. Moreover,....Comment: Copyright (c) 2019 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted.
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FT Speech: Danish Parliament Speech Corpus
This paper introduces FT Speech, a new speech corpus created from the
recorded meetings of the Danish Parliament, otherwise known as the Folketing
(FT). The corpus contains over 1,800 hours of transcribed speech by a total of
434 speakers. It is significantly larger in duration, vocabulary, and amount of
spontaneous speech than the existing public speech corpora for Danish, which
are largely limited to read-aloud and dictation data. We outline design
considerations, including the preprocessing methods and the alignment
procedure. To evaluate the quality of the corpus, we train automatic speech
recognition systems on the new resource and compare them to the systems trained
on the Danish part of Spr\r{a}kbanken, the largest public ASR corpus for Danish
to date. Our baseline results show that we achieve a 14.01 WER on the new
corpus. A combination of FT Speech with in-domain language data provides
comparable results to models trained specifically on Spr\r{a}kbanken, showing
that FT Speech transfers well to this data set. Interestingly, our results
demonstrate that the opposite is not the case. This shows that FT Speech
provides a valuable resource for promoting research on Danish ASR with more
spontaneous speech.Comment: Submitted to Interspeech 202
Data-driven Language Typology
In this thesis we use statistical n-gram language models and the perplexity measure for language typology tasks. We interpret the perplexity of a language model as a distance measure when the model is applied on a phonetic transcript of a language the model wasn't originally trained on. We use these distance measures for detecting language families, detecting closely related languages, and for language family tree reproduction. We also study the sample sizes required to train the language models and make estimations on how large corpora are needed for the successful use of these methods.
We find that trigram language models trained from automatically transcribed phonetic transcripts and the perplexity measure can be used for both detecting language families and for detecting closely related languages
A Norwegian Letter-to-Sound Engine with Danish as a Catalyst
Proceedings of the 16th Nordic Conference
of Computational Linguistics NODALIDA-2007.
Editors: Joakim Nivre, Heiki-Jaan Kaalep, Kadri Muischnek and Mare Koit.
University of Tartu, Tartu, 2007.
ISBN 978-9985-4-0513-0 (online)
ISBN 978-9985-4-0514-7 (CD-ROM)
pp. 305-309
The EASR corpora of European Portuguese, French, Hungarian and Polish elderly speech
Currently available speech recognisers do not usually work well with elderly speech. This is because several characteristics of speech (e.g. fundamental frequency, jitter, shimmer and harmonic noise ratio) change with age and because the acoustic models used by speech recognisers are typically trained with speech collected from younger adults only. To develop speech-driven applications capable of successfully recognising elderly speech, this type of speech data is needed for training acoustic models from scratch or for adapting acoustic models trained with younger adults’ speech. However, the availability of suitable elderly speech corpora is still very limited. This paper describes an ongoing project to design, collect, transcribe and annotate large elderly speech corpora for four European languages: Portuguese, French, Hungarian and Polish. The Portuguese, French and Polish corpora contain read speech only, whereas the Hungarian corpus also contains spontaneous command and control type of speech. Depending on the language in question, the corpora contain 76 to 205 hours of speech collected from 328 to 986 speakers aged 60 and over. The final corpora will come with manually verified orthographic transcriptions, as well as annotations for filled pauses, noises and damaged words.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio
The EASR Corpora of European Portuguese, French, Hungarian and Polish elderly speech
Currently available speech recognisers do not usually work well with elderly speech. This is because several characteristics of speech
(e.g. fundamental frequency, jitter, shimmer and harmonic noise ratio) change with age and because the acoustic models used by speech
recognisers are typically trained with speech collected from younger adults only. To develop speech-driven applications capable of
successfully recognising elderly speech, this type of speech data is needed for training acoustic models from scratch or for adapting
acoustic models trained with younger adults’ speech. However, the availability of suitable elderly speech corpora is still very limited.
This paper describes an ongoing project to design, collect, transcribe and annotate large elderly speech corpora for four European languages: Portuguese, French, Hungarian and Polish. The Portuguese, French and Polish corpora contain read speech only, whereas the
Hungarian corpus also contains spontaneous command and control type of speech. Depending on the language in question, the corpora
contain 76 to 205 hours of speech collected from 328 to 986 speakers aged 60 and over. The final corpora will come with manually
verified orthographic transcriptions, as well as annotations for filled pauses, noises and damaged words.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
A systematic review of speech recognition technology in health care
BACKGROUND To undertake a systematic review of existing literature relating to speech recognition technology and its application within health care. METHODS A systematic review of existing literature from 2000 was undertaken. Inclusion criteria were: all papers that referred to speech recognition (SR) in health care settings, used by health professionals (allied health, medicine, nursing, technical or support staff), with an evaluation or patient or staff outcomes. Experimental and non-experimental designs were considered. Six databases (Ebscohost including CINAHL, EMBASE, MEDLINE including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, OVID Technologies, PreMED-LINE, PsycINFO) were searched by a qualified health librarian trained in systematic review searches initially capturing 1,730 references. Fourteen studies met the inclusion criteria and were retained. RESULTS The heterogeneity of the studies made comparative analysis and synthesis of the data challenging resulting in a narrative presentation of the results. SR, although not as accurate as human transcription, does deliver reduced turnaround times for reporting and cost-effective reporting, although equivocal evidence of improved workflow processes. CONCLUSIONS SR systems have substantial benefits and should be considered in light of the cost and selection of the SR system, training requirements, length of the transcription task, potential use of macros and templates, the presence of accented voices or experienced and in-experienced typists, and workflow patterns.Funding for this study was provided by the University of Western Sydney.
NICTA is funded by the Australian Government through the Department of
Communications and the Australian Research Council through the ICT
Centre of Excellence Program. NICTA is also funded and supported by the
Australian Capital Territory, the New South Wales, Queensland and Victorian
Governments, the Australian National University, the University of New South
Wales, the University of Melbourne, the University of Queensland, the
University of Sydney, Griffith University, Queensland University of
Technology, Monash University and other university partners
The cross-linguistic performance of word segmentation models over time.
We select three word segmentation models with psycholinguistic foundations - transitional probabilities, the diphone-based segmenter, and PUDDLE - which track phoneme co-occurrence and positional frequencies in input strings, and in the case of PUDDLE build lexical and diphone inventories. The models are evaluated on caregiver utterances in 132 CHILDES corpora representing 28 languages and 11.9 m words. PUDDLE shows the best performance overall, albeit with wide cross-linguistic variation. We explore the reasons for this variation, fitting regression models to performance scores with linguistic properties which capture lexico-phonological characteristics of the input: word length, utterance length, diversity in the lexicon, the frequency of one-word utterances, the regularity of phoneme patterns at word boundaries, and the distribution of diphones in each language. These properties together explain four-tenths of the observed variation in segmentation performance, a strong outcome and a solid foundation for studying further variables which make the segmentation task difficult
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