Rapid Speaker Adaptation Using Clustered Maximum-Likelihood Linear Basis With Sparse Training Data
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Speaker space-based adaptation methods for automatic speech recognition have been shown to provide significant performance improvements for tasks where only a few seconds of adaptation speech is available. However, these techniques are not widely used in practical applications because they require large amounts of speaker-dependent training data and large amounts of computer memory. The authors propose a robust, low-complexity technique within this general class that has been shown to reduce word error rate, reduce the large storage requirements associated with speaker space approaches, and eliminate the need for large numbers of utterances per speaker in training. The technique is based on representing speakers as a linear combination of clustered linear basis vectors and a procedure is presented for maximum-likelihood estimation of these vectors from training data. Significant word error rate reduction was obtained using these methods relative to speaker independent performance for the Resource Management and Wall Street Journal task domains.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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