Vocal tract normalization as linear transformation of MFCC
Michael Pitz, Hermann Ney · 2003
We show that vocal tract normalization (VTN) frequency warping results in a linear transformation in the cepstral domain.For the special case of a piece-wise linear warping function, the transformation matrix is analytically calculated.This approach enables us to compute the Jacobian determinant of the transformation matrix, which allows the normalization of the probability distributions used in speaker-normalization for automatic speech recognition.