In speech recognition, acoustic modeling always requires tremendous transcribed samples, and the transcription becomes intensively time-consuming and costly. In order to aid this labor-intensive process, Active Learni...In speech recognition, acoustic modeling always requires tremendous transcribed samples, and the transcription becomes intensively time-consuming and costly. In order to aid this labor-intensive process, Active Learning (AL) is adopted for speech recognition, where only the most informative training samples are selected for manual annotation. In this paper, we propose a novel active learning method for Chinese acoustic modeling, the methods for initial training set selection based on Kullback-Leibler Divergence (KLD) and sample evaluation based on multi-level confusion networks are proposed and adopted in our active learning system, respectively. Our experiments show that our proposed method can achieve satisfying performances.展开更多
基金Acknowledgements This study is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60705019), the National High-Tech Research and Development Plan of China ( 2006AA010102 and 2007AA01Z417), the NOKIA project, and the 111 Project of China under Grant No. 1308004.
文摘In speech recognition, acoustic modeling always requires tremendous transcribed samples, and the transcription becomes intensively time-consuming and costly. In order to aid this labor-intensive process, Active Learning (AL) is adopted for speech recognition, where only the most informative training samples are selected for manual annotation. In this paper, we propose a novel active learning method for Chinese acoustic modeling, the methods for initial training set selection based on Kullback-Leibler Divergence (KLD) and sample evaluation based on multi-level confusion networks are proposed and adopted in our active learning system, respectively. Our experiments show that our proposed method can achieve satisfying performances.