A Comparative Study of Speaker Adaptation Methods for HMM-Based Speech Recognition
Myoung‐Wan Koo, Chong-Kwan Un, Hwang-Soo Lee · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea · 1991
In this paper, we compare the performances of speaker adaptation which consist of two stages of processing for an HMM-based speech recognition system. We compare three kinds of VQ adaptation methods which may be used in the first stage to reduce the distortion error for a new speaker : label prototype adaptation, adaptation with a codebook from adaptation speech itself, and adaptation with a mapped codebook. We then compare the performance of four kinds of HMM parameter adaptation methods which may be used in the second stage to transform HMM parameters for a new speaker : adaptation by the Viterbi algorithm, that by the DTW algorithm, that by the iterative alignment algorithm. The results show that adaptation based on the fuzzy histogram algorithm yields the highest accuracy in an HMM-based speech recognition system.