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Speaker-Invariant Training via Adversarial Learning

Citation Author(s):
Zhong Meng, Jinyu Li, Zhuo Chen, Yong Zhao, Vadim Mazalov, Yifan Gong, Biing-Hwang (Fred) Juang
Submitted by:
Zhong Meng
Last updated:
12 May 2019 - 9:29pm
Document Type:
Poster
Document Year:
2018
Event:
Presenters:
Yifan Gong
Paper Code:
2213
 

We propose a novel adversarial multi-task learning scheme, aiming at actively curtailing the inter-talker feature variability while maximizing its senone discriminability so as to enhance the performance of a deep neural network (DNN) based ASR system. We call the scheme speaker-invariant training (SIT). In SIT, a DNN acoustic model and a speaker classifier network are jointly optimized to minimize the senone (tied triphone state) classification loss, and simultaneously mini-maximize the speaker classification loss. A speaker-invariant and senone-discriminative deep feature is learned through this adversarial multi-task learning. With SIT, a canonical DNN acoustic model with significantly reduced variance in its output probabilities is learned with no explicit speaker-independent (SI) transformations or speaker-specific representations used in training or testing. Evaluated on the CHiME-3 dataset, the SIT achieves 4.99% relative word error rate (WER) improvement over the conventional SI acoustic model. With additional unsupervised speaker adaptation, the speaker-adapted (SA) SIT model achieves 4.86% relative WER gain over the SA SI acoustic model.

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