METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FAST ADAPTATION OF A BAND-QUANTIZED SPEECH DECODING SYSTEM

A method of performing speaker adaptation of acoustic models in a band-quantized speech recognition system, wherein the system including one or more acoustic models represented by a feature space of multi-dimensional gaussians, whose dimensions are partitioned into bands, and the gaussian means and covariances within each band are quantized into atoms, comprises the following steps. A decoded segment of a speech signal associated with a particular speaker is obtained. Then, at least one adaptation mapping based on the decoded segment is computed. Lastly, the at least one adaptation mapping is applied to the atoms of the acoustic models to generate one or more acoustic models adapted to the particular speaker. Accordingly, a fast speaker adaptation methodology is provided for use in real-time applications.