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An initial investigation of long-term adaptation for meeting transcription


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Authors

Chen, X 
Gales, MJF 
Breslin, C 
Chen, L 

Abstract

Meeting transcription is a very useful and challenging task. The majority of research to date has focused on individual meeting, or only a small group of meetings. In many practical deployments, multiple related meetings will take place over a long period of time. This paper describes an initial investigation of how this long-term data can be used to improve meeting transcription. A corpus of technical meetings, using a single microphone array, was collected over a two year period, yielding a total of 179 hours of meeting data. Baseline systems using deep neural network acoustic models, in both Tandem and Hybrid configurations, and neural network-based language models are described. The impact of supervised and unsupervised adaptation of the acoustic models is then evaluated, as well as the impact of improved language models.

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Keywords

Meeting Transcription, Unsupervised Adaptation, Confidence Score, MAP, MLLR

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Conference Name

Interspeech 2014

Journal ISSN

2308-457X
1990-9772

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Publisher

ISCA
Sponsorship
Xie Chen would like to thank Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, Cambridge Research Lab, for funding his work. The authors would like to thank the Toshiba Cambridge Speech Group for allowing the data to be collected, also would like to thank Chao Zhang and Eric Wang for providing DNN and CMLLR transform tools.