Unsupervised adaptation of a speech recognizer using reliable information among N-best strings

摘要

The system performs unsupervised speech model adaptation using the recognizer to generate the N-best solutions for an input utterance. Each of these N-best solutions is tested by a reliable information extraction process. Reliable information is extracted by a weighting technique based on likelihood scores generated by the recognizer, or by a non-linear thresholding function. The system may be used in a single pass implementation or iteratively in a multi-pass implementation. <IMAGE>