ISCA Archive Interspeech 2004
ISCA Archive Interspeech 2004

Model composition by lagrange polynomial approximation for robust speech recognition in noisy environment

Chandra Kant Raut, Takuya Nishimoto, Shigeki Sagayama

This paper presents a technique for estimating HMM model parameters for noisy speech from given clean speech HMM and noise HMM. The model parameters are estimated by approximating the non-linear function governing the relationship between speech and noise, by a Lagrange polynomial, and thus enabling the distribution of corrupted speech parameters to have a closed form. The method is computationally efficient, and the experimental results showed significant improvement in recognition performance of noisy speech with this approach. Typically, word accuracy increased from 9.2% with clean model to 82.8% with the model composed by the proposed method as compared to 45.4% with the model composed by PMC Log-normal approximation, on an isolated word recognition task for exhibition hall noise added at 10 dB SNR.