Syllable based DNN-HMM Cantonese speech-to-text system

Timothy Wong, Claire W.Y. Li, Sam Lam, Billy Chiu, Qin Lu, Minglei Li, Dan Xiong, Roy S. Yu, Vincent To Yee Ng

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Abstract

This paper reports our work on building up a Cantonese Speech-to-Text (STT) system with a syllable based acoustic model. This is a part of an effort in building a STT system to aid dyslexic students who have cognitive deficiency in writing skills but have no problem expressing their ideas through speech. For Cantonese speech recognition, the basic unit of acoustic models can either be the conventional Initial-Final (IF) syllables, or the Onset-Nucleus-Coda (ONC) syllables where finals are further split into nucleus and coda to reflect the intra-syllable variations in Cantonese. By using the Kaldi toolkit, our system is trained using the stochastic gradient descent optimization model with the aid of GPUs for the hybrid Deep Neural Network and Hidden Markov Model (DNN-HMM) with and without I-vector based speaker adaptive training technique. The input features of the same Gaussian Mixture Model with speaker adaptive training (GMM-SAT) to DNN are used in all cases. Experiments show that the ONC-based syllable acoustic modeling with I-vector based DNN-HMM achieves the best performance with the word error rate (WER) of 9.66% and the real time factor (RTF) of 1.38812.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016
PublisherEuropean Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Pages3856-3862
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9782951740891
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2016
Event10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016 - Grand Hotel Bernardin Conference Center, Portoroz, Slovenia
Duration: 23 May 201628 May 2016

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2016
Country/TerritorySlovenia
CityPortoroz
Period23/05/1628/05/16

Keywords

  • Cantonese speech recognition
  • DNN-HMM
  • Kaldi toolkit
  • Onset-nucleus-coda syllable scheme

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Linguistics and Language
  • Library and Information Sciences
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Education

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