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Adaptation techniques are necessary in automatic speech recognizers to improve a recognition accuracy. Linear Transformation methods (MLLR or fMLLR) are the most favorite in the case of limited available data. The fMLLR is the feature-space transformation. This is the advantage with contrast to MLLR that transforms the entire acoustic model. The classical fMLLR estimation involves maximization of the likelihood criterion based on individual Gaussian components statistic. We proposed an approach which takes into account the overall likelihood of a HMM state. It estimates the transformation to optimize the ML criterion of HMM directly using gradient descent algorithm.
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Vaněk, J., Zajíc, Z. (2013). A Direct Criterion Minimization Based fMLLR via Gradient Descend. In: Habernal, I., Matoušek, V. (eds) Text, Speech, and Dialogue. TSD 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8082. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40585-3_8
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