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@TECHREPORT{Motlicek_Idiap-RR-39-2013,
         author = {Motlicek, Petr and Imseng, David and Garner, Philip N.},
       keywords = {Acoustic model adaptation, Automatic Speech Recognition, under-resourced languages},
       projects = {Idiap, DBOX, SNSF-MULTI},
          month = {11},
          title = {Crosslingual Tandem-SGMM: Exploiting Out-Of-Language Data for Acoustic Model and Feature Level Adaptation},
           type = {Idiap-RR},
         number = {Idiap-RR-39-2013},
           year = {2013},
    institution = {Idiap},
        address = {Rue Marconi 19, Martigny, Switzerland},
       abstract = {Recent studies have shown that speech recognizers may benefit from data in languages other than the target language through efficient acoustic model- or feature-level adaptation. Crosslingual Tandem-Subspace Gaussian Mixture Models (SGMM) are successfully able to combine acoustic model- and feature-level adaptation techniques. More specifically, we focus on under-resourced languages (Afrikaans in our case) and perform feature-level adaptation through the estimation of phone class posterior features with a Multilayer Perceptron that was trained
on data from a similar language with large amounts of available speech data (Dutch in our case). The same Dutch data can also be exploited on an acoustic model-level by training globally-shared SGMM parameters in a crosslingual way. The two adaptation techniques are indeed complementary and result in a crosslingual Tandem-SGMM system that yields relative improvement of about 22\% compared to a standard speech recognizer on an Afrikaans phoneme recognition task. Interestingly, eventual score-level combination of the individual SGMM systems yields additional 3\% relative improvement.},
            pdf = {https://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2013/Motlicek_Idiap-RR-39-2013.pdf}
}