Topic identification of spoken documents using unsupervised acoustic unit discovery
Santosh Kesiraju, Raghavendra Reddy Pappagari, Lucas Ondel, Lukáš Burget, Najim Dehak, Sanjeev P. Khudanpur, Jaň Černocký, Suryakanth V. Gangashetty · 2017
This paper investigates the application of unsupervised acoustic unit discovery for topic identification (topic ID) of spoken audio documents. The acoustic unit discovery method is based on a non-parametric Bayesian phone-loop model that segments a speech utterance into phone-like categories. The discovered phone-like (acoustic) units are further fed into the conventional topic ID framework. Using multilingual bottleneck features for the acoustic unit discovery, we show that the proposed method outperforms other systems that are based on cross-lingual phoneme recognizer.