Speaker Adapted Beamforming for Multi-Channel Automatic Speech Recognition
This paper presents, in the context of multi-channel ASR, a method to adapt a mask based, statistically optimal beamforming approach to a speaker of interest. The beamforming vector of the statistically optimal beamformer is computed by utilizing speech and noise masks, which are estimated by a neural network. The proposed adaptation approach is based on the integration of the beamformer, which includes the mask estimation network, and the acoustic model of the ASR system. This allows for the propagation of the training error, from the acoustic modeling cost function, all the way through the beamforming operation and through the mask estimation network. By using the results of a first pass recognition and by keeping all other parameters fixed, the mask estimation network can therefore be fine tuned by retraining. Utterances of a speaker of interest can thus be used in a two pass approach, to optimize the beamforming for the speech characteristics of that specific speaker. It is shown that this approach improves the ASR performance of a state-of-the-art multi-channel ASR system on the CHiME-4 data. Furthermore the effect of the adaptation on the estimated speech masks is discussed.
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