Augmented Data Training of Joint Acoustic/Phonotactic DNN i-vectors for NIST LRE15
| Alan Mccree, Greg Sell, Daniel Garcia-Romero |
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This paper presents the JHU HLTCOE submission to the NIST 2015 Language Recognition Evaluation, including critical and novel algorithmic components, use of limited and augmented training data, and additional post-evaluation analysis and improvements. All of our systems used i-vectors based on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) with discriminatively-trained Gaussian classifiers, and linear fusion was performed with duration-dependent scaling. A key innovation was the use of three different kinds of i-vectors: acoustic, phonotactic, and joint. In addition, data augmentation was used to overcome the limited training data of this evaluation. Post-evaluation analysis shows the benefits of these design decisions, as well as further potential improvements.
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