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DNN Based Embeddings for Language Recognition
Plchot Oldřich, Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM)
Matějka Pavel, Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM)
Gonzalez-Rodriguez Joaquin
Embeddings, language recognition, LID, DNN
In this work, we present a language identification (LID) systembased on embeddings. In our case, an embedding is a fixed-lengthvector (similar to i-vector) that represents the whole utterance, butunlike i-vector it is designed to contain mostly information relevantto the target task (LID). In order to obtain these embeddings, wetrain a deep neural network (DNN) with sequence summarizationlayer to classify languages. In particular, we trained a DNN basedon bidirectional long short-term memory (BLSTM) recurrent neuralnetwork (RNN) layers, whose frame-by-frame outputs are summarizedinto mean and standard deviation statistics. After this poolinglayer, we add two fully connected layers whose outputs correspondto embeddings. Finally, we add a softmax output layer and train thewhole network with multi-class cross-entropy objective to discriminatebetween languages. We report our results on NIST LRE 2015and we compare the performance of embeddings and correspondingi-vectors both modeled by Gaussian Linear Classifier (GLC). Usingonly embeddings resulted in comparable performance to i-vectorsand by performing score-level fusion we achieved 7.3% relativeimprovement over the baseline.
@inproceedings{BUT155045,
author="Alicia {Lozano Díez} and Oldřich {Plchot} and Pavel {Matějka} and Joaquin {Gonzalez-Rodriguez}",
title="DNN Based Embeddings for Language Recognition",
booktitle="Proceedings of ICASSP 2018",
year="2018",
pages="5184--5188",
publisher="IEEE Signal Processing Society",
address="Calgary",
doi="10.1109/ICASSP.2018.8462403",
isbn="978-1-5386-4658-8",
url="https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/11723/"
}