Unsupervised Speaker Adaptation using Attention-based Speaker Memory for End-to-End ASR

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06165v1
• Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 18:31:31 GMT
• Title: Unsupervised Speaker Adaptation using Attention-based Speaker Memory for End-to-End ASR
• Authors: Leda Sar{\i}, Niko Moritz, Takaaki Hori, Jonathan Le Roux
• Abstract summary: We propose an unsupervised speaker adaptation method inspired by the neural Turing machine for end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) The proposed model contains a memory block that holds speaker i-vectors extracted from the training data and reads relevant i-vectors from the memory through an attention mechanism. We show that M-vectors, which do not require an auxiliary speaker embedding extraction system at test time, achieve similar word error rates (WERs) compared to i-vectors for single speaker utterances and significantly lower WERs for utterances in which there are speaker changes
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• Abstract: We propose an unsupervised speaker adaptation method inspired by the neural Turing machine for end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR). The proposed model contains a memory block that holds speaker i-vectors extracted from the training data and reads relevant i-vectors from the memory through an attention mechanism. The resulting memory vector (M-vector) is concatenated to the acoustic features or to the hidden layer activations of an E2E neural network model. The E2E ASR system is based on the joint connectionist temporal classification and attention-based encoder-decoder architecture. M-vector and i-vector results are compared for inserting them at different layers of the encoder neural network using the WSJ and TED-LIUM2 ASR benchmarks. We show that M-vectors, which do not require an auxiliary speaker embedding extraction system at test time, achieve similar word error rates (WERs) compared to i-vectors for single speaker utterances and significantly lower WERs for utterances in which there are speaker changes.

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