Accession Number:
AD1033827
Title:
Language Recognition via Sparse Coding
Descriptive Note:
Technical Report
Corporate Author:
MIT Lincoln Laboratory Lexington United States
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Report Date:
2016-09-08
Pagination or Media Count:
4.0
Abstract:
Spoken language recognition requires a series of signal processing steps and learning algorithms to model distinguishing characteristics of different languages. In this paper, we present a sparse discriminative feature learning framework for language recognition. We use sparse coding, an unsupervised method, to compute efficient representations for spectral features from a speech utterance while learning basis vectors for language models. Differentiated from existing approaches, we introduce a maximum a posteriori MAP adaptation scheme that further optimizes the discriminative quality of sparse-coded speech features. We empirically validate the effectiveness of our approach using the NIST LRE 2015 dataset.
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Subject Categories:
- Voice Communications