Multi-scale feature based convolutional neural networks for large vocabulary speech recognition

T Fu, X Wu - … IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
T Fu, X Wu
2017 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2017ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning has brought a breakthrough to the performance of speech recognition. The
speech recognition systems based on deep neural networks have obtained the state-of-the-
art performance on various speech recognition tasks. These systems almost utilize the Mel-
frequency cepstral coefficients or the Mel-scale log-filterbank coefficients, which are based
on short-time Fourier transform. Although these features are designed based on the auditory
characteristics of the human, it is a problem that the inherent tradeoff of the temporal and …
Deep learning has brought a breakthrough to the performance of speech recognition. The speech recognition systems based on deep neural networks have obtained the state-of-the-art performance on various speech recognition tasks. These systems almost utilize the Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients or the Mel-scale log-filterbank coefficients, which are based on short-time Fourier transform. Although these features are designed based on the auditory characteristics of the human, it is a problem that the inherent tradeoff of the temporal and frequency resolution still exists in spectral representations based on short-time Fourier transform. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale method to mitigate the tradeoff and a model architecture that enables to analyze speech at multiple scale. Experiments are conducted on TIMIT and HKUST corpus. We compare the proposed multi-scale features and traditional features at various number of configurations. Experimental results show that the proposed model architecture can obtain significant performance improvement.
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