An Interactive Way to Acquire Internet Documents for Language Model Adaptation of Speech Recognition Systems

• Published in: 2011 Third International Conference on Intelligent Human-Machine Systems and Cybernetics Vol. 1; pp. 97 - 100
• Main Authors: Hong Zhang, Xiangdong Wang, Yueliang Qian, Shouxun Lin
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01-08-2011
• Subjects: Accuracy; Adaptation models; Computational modeling; corpus acquiring; feedback; Indexes; Internet; language model adaptation; Speech; Speech recognition; users
• ISBN: 9781457706769; 1457706768
• DOI: 10.1109/IHMSC.2011.29

In this paper, a new method for language model adaptation based on users' feedback in the field of speech recognition is described. Different from other methods, the proposed method conducts corpus collection and language model adaptation in an interactive way. The user can input a small quantity of texts to describe the topic or the basic idea of the speech and evaluate some of the obtained texts as "good" or "useless". The system can learn from the interaction information and acquire textual corpus which is more relevant to the topic of the speech. Experimental results show that for a given speech recognition system using this approach the recognition accuracy is increased by 7 percentage points compared to the same system using traditional adaptation method without interaction.