INTERSPEECH 2013 14thAnnual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Lyon, France August 25-29, 2013

Bounded Conditional Mean Imputation with an Approximate Posterior

Ulpu Remes

Aalto University, Finland

Missing-feature imputation or reconstruction is used in noiserobust automatic speech recognition to recover the unobserved clean speech information. Reconstruction methods often use the noise-corrupted observations and a clean speech prior to calculate a point estimate for the unobserved clean speech features, whereas the approach proposed in this work associates the unobserved clean speech features with a full posterior distribution. The posterior mean can be used as a clean speech estimate in bounded conditional mean imputation and the posterior variance can be included as observation uncertainties. The proposed method is evaluated in a large-vocabulary noise-robust speech recognition task with speech data recorded in real noisy environments.

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Bibliographic reference.  Remes, Ulpu (2013): "Bounded conditional mean imputation with an approximate posterior", In INTERSPEECH-2013, 3007-3011.