ISCA Archive CHiME 2018
ISCA Archive CHiME 2018

DA-IICT/IIITV system for the 5th CHiME 2018 Challenge

Ankur Patil, Maddala V. Siva Krishna, Mehak Piplani, Pulikonda Aditya Sai, Hardik B. Sailor, Hemant A. Patil

This paper presents our work on end-to-end (E2E) system development for multiple array track in the CHiME-5 challenge 2018. In particular, we propose to use E2E Lattice Free Maximum Mutual Information (LF-MMI) for acoustic modeling. For front-end, Mel Frequency Spectral Coefficients (MFSC) and Power Normalized Spectral Coefficients (PNSC) features are used. We employ delay-and-sum beamformer for speech enhancement of training and development data. The Recurrent Neural Network Language Model (RNNLM) rescoring is also explored along with 3-gram language model. Our E2E LF-MMI Time Delay Neural Network (TDNN) system performed better than the E2E system provided in the challenge with an absolute reduction of 10.95 % in WER. The final system combination further reduces the WER to 78.63 %. Hence, our proposed system combination captures complementary information due to various E2E systems trained on full training data, beamformed data and using MFSC and PNSC features, respectively.