pMCT: Patched Multi-Condition Training for Robust Speech Recognition

07/11/2022
by   Pablo Peso Parada, et al.
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We propose a novel Patched Multi-Condition Training (pMCT) method for robust Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). pMCT employs Multi-condition Audio Modification and Patching (MAMP) via mixing patches of the same utterance extracted from clean and distorted speech. Training using patch-modified signals improves robustness of models in noisy reverberant scenarios. Our proposed pMCT is evaluated on the LibriSpeech dataset showing improvement over using vanilla Multi-Condition Training (MCT). For analyses on robust ASR, we employed pMCT on the VOiCES dataset which is a noisy reverberant dataset created using utterances from LibriSpeech. In the analyses, pMCT achieves 23.1 relative WER reduction compared to the MCT.

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