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BASKAR, M. HERZIG, T. NGUYEN, D. DIEZ SÁNCHEZ, M. POLZEHL, T. BURGET, L. ČERNOCKÝ, J.
Original Title
Speaker adaptation for Wav2vec2 based dysarthric ASR
Type
conference paper
Language
English
Original Abstract
Dysarthric speech recognition has posed major challenges due to lack of training data and heavy mismatch in speaker characteristics. Recent ASR systems have benefited from readily available pretrained models such as wav2vec2 to improve the recognition performance. Speaker adaptation using fMLLR and xvectors have provided major gains for dysarthric speech with very little adaptation data. However, integration of wav2vec2 with fMLLR features or xvectors during wav2vec2 finetuning is yet to be explored. In this work, we propose a simple adaptation network for fine-tuning wav2vec2 using fMLLR features. The adaptation network is also flexible to handle other speaker adaptive features such as xvectors. Experimental analysis show steady improvements using our proposed approach across all impairment severity levels and attains 57.72% WER for high severity in UASpeech dataset. We also performed experiments on German dataset to substantiate the consistency of our proposed approach across diverse domains.
Keywords
Dysarthria, self-supervision, ASR, wav2vec2, fMLLR, xvectors, speaker adaptation
Authors
BASKAR, M.; HERZIG, T.; NGUYEN, D.; DIEZ SÁNCHEZ, M.; POLZEHL, T.; BURGET, L.; ČERNOCKÝ, J.
Released
18. 9. 2022
Publisher
International Speech Communication Association
Location
Incheon
ISBN
1990-9772
Periodical
Proceedings of Interspeech
Year of study
9
Number
State
French Republic
Pages from
3403
Pages to
3407
Pages count
5
URL
https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/pdfs/interspeech_2022/baskar22b_interspeech.pdf
BibTex
@inproceedings{BUT179866, author="Murali Karthick {Baskar} and Tim {Herzig} and Diana {Nguyen} and Mireia {Diez Sánchez} and Tim {Polzehl} and Lukáš {Burget} and Jan {Černocký}", title="Speaker adaptation for Wav2vec2 based dysarthric ASR", booktitle="Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH", year="2022", journal="Proceedings of Interspeech", volume="9", number="9", pages="3403--3407", publisher="International Speech Communication Association", address="Incheon", doi="10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10896", issn="1990-9772", url="https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/pdfs/interspeech_2022/baskar22b_interspeech.pdf" }