Multilingual Acoustic Modeling Method Based on Phoneme Clustering
Liang Jia · 2009
A clustering method is proposed to generate multilingual global phoneme based on the decrease of model self-likelihood.Two linguistic limitations are used in the clustering procedure,and the phonemes in same language or belonging to different international phonetic alphabet(IPA) classes are not merged.In telephone speech keyword spotting system,the performance of several Chinese-English bilingual model are compared which are generated by different phoneme clustering methods.The experimental results show that the merged phoneme set of an appropriate size can generate acoustic models with good quality,far above the results without merging.Moreover,the linguistic limitations added to clustering procedure can improve the performance.