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= Results on Large Tasks =
= Results on Large Tasks =


After tuning the CNN configuration on a small dataset, the CNN-based features system is tested on two larger datasets.
== Broadcast News ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ WER on Broadcast News, 400 hrs.
! Model
! dev04f
! rt04
|-
| Baseline GMM/HMM
| 16.0
| 13.8
|-
| Hybrid DNN
| 15.1
| 13.4
|-
| DNN-based features
| 14.9
| 13.4
|-
| CNN-based features
| 13.1
| 12.0
|-
|}
== Switchboard ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ WER on Switchboard, 300 hrs.
! Model
! Hub5’00 SWB
! rt03 FSH
! rt03 SWB
|-
| Baseline GMM/HMM
| 14.5
| 17.0
| 25.2
|-
| Hybrid DNN
| 12.2
| 14.9
| 23.5
|-
| CNN-based features
| 11.5
| 14.3
| 21.9
|-
|}
= Conclusions and Discussions =
= Conclusions and Discussions =
Hybrid CNN wasn't tested on larger dataset, the authors didn't give a reason for that and it might be due to a scalability issues.
They didn't compare to the CNN system proposed by Osama et. al. [].


= References =
= References =


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Revision as of 17:45, 17 November 2015

Introduction

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been explored in the area of speech recognition. They outperformed the-state-of-the-art Gaussian Mixture Models-Hidden Markov Model (GMM-HMM) systems in both small and large speech recognition tasks <ref name=firstDBN> A. Mohamed, G. Dahl, and G. Hinton, “Deep belief networks for phone recognition,” in Proc. NIPS Workshop Deep Learning for Speech Recognition and Related Applications, 2009. </ref> <ref name=tuning_fb_DBN>A. Mohamed, G. Dahl, and G. Hinton, “Acoustic modeling using deep belief networks,” IEEE Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Processing, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 14–22, Jan. 2012.</ref> <ref name=finetuningDNN> A. Mohamed, D. Yu, and L. Deng, “Investigation of full-sequence training of deep belief networks for speech recognition,” in Proc. Interspeech, 2010, pp. 2846–2849. </ref> <ref name=bing> G. Dahl, D. Yu, L. Deng, and A. Acero, “Context-dependent pretrained deep neural networks for large-vocabulary speech recognition,” IEEE Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Processing, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 30–42, Jan. 2012. </ref> <ref name=scrf> N. Jaitly, P. Nguyen, A. Senior, and V. Vanhoucke, “An application of pretrained deep neural networks to large vocabulary speech recognition,” submitted for publication. </ref>. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) can model temporal/spacial variations while reduce translation variances. CNNs are attractive in the area of speech recognition for two reasons: first, they are translation invariant which makes them an alternative to various speaker adaptation techniques. Second, spectral representation of the speech has strong local correlations, CNN can naturally capture these type of correlations.

CNNs have been explored in speech recognition <ref name=convDNN> O. Abdel-Hamid, A. Mohamed, H. Jiang, and G. Penn, “Applying convolutional neural networks concepts to hybrid NN-HMM model for speech recognition,” in Proc. ICASSP, 2012, pp. 4277–4280. </ref>, but only one convolutional layer was used. This paper explores using multiple convolutional layers, and the system is tested on one small dataset and two large datasets. The results show that CNNs outperform DNNs in all of these tasks.

CNN Architecture

A typical CNN, as shown in Fig 1, consists of a convolutional layer for which the weights are shared across the input space, and a max-poolig layer.

Fig 1. A typical convolutional neural network.

Experimental Setup

A small 40-hour dataset is used to learn the behaviour of CNNs for speech tasks. The results are reported on EARS dev04f dataset. Features of 40-dimentional log mel-filter bank coeffs are used. The size of the hidden fully connected layer is 1024, and the softmax layer size is 512. For fine-tuning, the learning rate is halved after each iteration for which the objective function doesn't improve sufficiently on a held-out validation set. After 5 times of halving the learning rate, the training stops.

Number of Convolutional vs. Fully Connected Layers

In image recognition tasks, a few convolutional layers are used before fully connected layers. These convolutional layers tend to reduce spectral varitaion, while fully connected layers use the local information learned by the the convolutional layers to do classification. In this work and unlike what have been explored before for speech recognition tasks <ref name=convDNN></ref>, multiple convolutional layers are used followed by fully connected layers similar to image recognition framework. The following table shows the word error rate (WER) for different number of convolutional and fully connected layers.

Word error rate as a function of the number of convolutional and fully-connected layers.
Number of convolutional and fully-connected layers WER
No conv, 6 full 24.8
1 conv, 5 full 23.5
2 conv, 4 full 22.1
3 conv, 3 full 22.4

Number of Hidden Units

Speech is different than images in the sense that different frequencies have different features, hence Osama et. al. <ref name=convDNN></ref> proposed to have weight sharing across nearby frequencies only. Although this solves the problem, it limits adding multiple convolutional layers. In this work, weights sharing is done across the entire feature space while using more filters - compared to vision - to capture the differences in the low and high frequencies. The following table shows the WER for different number of hidden units for convolutional layers for 2 convolutional and 4 fully-connected configuration. The parameters of the network is kept constant for fair comparisons.

Word error rate as a function of the number of hidden units.
Number of hidden units WER
64 24.1
128 23.0
220 22.1
128/256 21.9

Optimal Feature Set

The following features are used to build the table below, WER is used to decide the best set of features to be used.

  1. Vocal Tract Length Normalization (VTLN)-warping to help map features into a canonical space.
  2. feature space Maximum Likelihood Linear Regression (fMLLR).
  3. Delte (d) which is the difference between features in consecutive frames and double delta (dd).
  4. Energy feature.
Word error rate as a function of input features.
Feature WER
Mel FB 21.9
VTLN-warped mel FB 21.3
VTLN-warped mel FB + fMLLR 21.2
VTLN-warped mel FB + d + dd 20.7
VTLN-warped mel FB + d + dd + energy 21.0

Pooling Experiments

Pooling helps with reducing spectral variance in the input features. The pooling is done only on the frequency domain which was shown to be working better for speech <ref name=convDNN></ref>. The word error rate is tested on two different dataset with two different sampling rates (8khz switchboard telephone conversations SWB and 16khz English Broadcast news BN), and the pooling size of 3 is found to be the optimal size.

Word error rate as a function of the pooling size.
Pooling size WER-SWB WER-BN
No pooling 23.7 '-'
pool=2 23.4 20.7
pool=3 22.9 20.7
pool=4 22.9 21.4

Results with Proposed Architecture

The architecture described in the previous section is used in the experiments. A 50-hr English Broadcast News (BN) dataset is used for training and EARS dev04f and rt04 datasets are used for testing. Five different systems are used for comparisons as shown in the following table. The hybrid approach means that either the DNN or CNN is used to produce the likelihood probabilities for the HMM. While CNN/DNN-based features means that CNN or DNN were used to produce features to be used by the GMM/HMM system. We can see that using Hybrid CNN offers 15% relative improvement over GMM-HMM system, and 3-5% relative improvement over Hybrid DNN. Also CNN-based feature offers 5-6% relative improvement over DNN-based features.

WER for NN Hybrid and Feature-Based Systems.
Model dev04f rt04
Baseline GMM/HMM 18.8 18.1
Hybrid DNN 16.3 15.8
DNN-based features 16.7 16.0
Hybrid CNN 15.8 15.0
CNN-based features 15.2 15.0

Results on Large Tasks

After tuning the CNN configuration on a small dataset, the CNN-based features system is tested on two larger datasets.

Broadcast News

WER on Broadcast News, 400 hrs.
Model dev04f rt04
Baseline GMM/HMM 16.0 13.8
Hybrid DNN 15.1 13.4
DNN-based features 14.9 13.4
CNN-based features 13.1 12.0

Switchboard

WER on Switchboard, 300 hrs.
Model Hub5’00 SWB rt03 FSH rt03 SWB
Baseline GMM/HMM 14.5 17.0 25.2
Hybrid DNN 12.2 14.9 23.5
CNN-based features 11.5 14.3 21.9

Conclusions and Discussions

References

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