Intersession variability compensation for language detection

Xi Zhou, Jiří Navrátil, Jason W. Pelecanos, Ganesh N. Ramaswamy, Thomas S. Huang

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

Abstract

Gaussian mixture models (GMM) have become one of the standard acoustic approaches for Language Detection. These models are typically incorporated to produce a log-likelihood ratio (LLR) verification statistic. In this framework, the intersession variability within each language becomes an adverse factor degrading the accuracy. To address this problem, we formulate the LLR as a function of the GMM parameters concatenated into normalized mean supervectors, and estimate the distribution of each language in this (high dimensional) supervector space. The goal is to de-emphasize the directions with the largest intersession variability. We compare this method with two other popular intersession variability compensation methods known as Nuisance Attribute Projection (NAP) and Within-Class Covariance Normalization (WCCN). Experiments on the NIST LRE 2003 and NIST LRE 2005 speech corpora show that the presented technique reduces the error by 50% relative to the baseline, and performs competitively with the NAP and WCCN approaches. Fusion results with a phonotactic component are also presented.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP
Pages4157-4160
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP - Las Vegas, NV, United States
Duration: Mar 31 2008Apr 4 2008

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Other

Other2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas, NV
Period3/31/084/4/08

Keywords

  • ISV
  • NAP
  • WCCN-LLR

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Intersession variability compensation for language detection'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this