ISCA Archive Interspeech 2011
ISCA Archive Interspeech 2011

Discriminative features for language identification

Chris Alberti, Michiel Bacchiani

In this paper we investigate the use of discriminatively trained feature transforms to improve the accuracy of a MAP-SVM language recognition system. We train the feature transforms by alternatively solving an SVM optimization on MAP super-vectors estimated from transformed features, and performing a small step on the transforms in the direction of the antigradient of the SVM objective function. We applied this method on the LRE2003 dataset, and obtained an 5.9% relative reduction of pooled equal error rate.