Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Publication Date
12-2014
Publisher
Springer
Source Publication
EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing
Source ISSN
1687-4722
Original Item ID
doi: 10.1186/s13636-014-0042-5
Abstract
Currently, acoustic spoken language recognition (SLR) and phonotactic SLR systems are widely used language recognition systems. To achieve better performance, researchers combine multiple subsystems with the results often much better than a single SLR system. Phonotactic SLR subsystems may vary in the acoustic features vectors or include multiple language-specific phone recognizers and different acoustic models. These methods achieve good performance but usually compute at high computational cost. In this paper, a new diversification for phonotactic language recognition systems is proposed using vector space models by support vector machine (SVM) supervector reconstruction (SSR). In this architecture, the subsystems share the same feature extraction, decoding, and N-gram counting preprocessing steps, but model in a different vector space by using the SSR algorithm without significant additional computation. We term this a homogeneous ensemble phonotactic language recognition (HEPLR) system. The system integrates three different SVM supervector reconstruction algorithms, including relative SVM supervector reconstruction, functional SVM supervector reconstruction, and perturbing SVM supervector reconstruction. All of the algorithms are incorporated using a linear discriminant analysis-maximum mutual information (LDA-MMI) backend for improving language recognition evaluation (LRE) accuracy. Evaluated on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) LRE 2009 task, the proposed HEPLR system achieves better performance than a baseline phone recognition-vector space modeling (PR-VSM) system with minimal extra computational cost. The performance of the HEPLR system yields 1.39%, 3.63%, and 14.79% equal error rate (EER), representing 6.06%, 10.15%, and 10.53% relative improvements over the baseline system, respectively, for the 30-, 10-, and 3-s test conditions.
Recommended Citation
Liu, Wei-Wei; Zhang, Wei-Qiang; Johnson, Michael T.; and Liu, Jia, "Homogenous Ensemble Phonotactic Language Recognition Based on SVM Supervector Reconstruction" (2014). Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research and Publications. 83.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/electric_fac/83
Comments
Published version. EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, Vol. 42 (December 2014). DOI. © 2014 SpringerOpen. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0.