Distilling Knowledge Using Parallel Data for Far-field Speech Recognition

20 Feb 2018  ·  Jiangyan Yi, Jian-Hua Tao, Zhengqi Wen, Bin Liu ·

In order to improve the performance for far-field speech recognition, this paper proposes to distill knowledge from the close-talking model to the far-field model using parallel data. The close-talking model is called the teacher model. The far-field model is called the student model. The student model is trained to imitate the output distributions of the teacher model. This constraint can be realized by minimizing the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence between the output distribution of the student model and the teacher model. Experimental results on AMI corpus show that the best student model achieves up to 4.7% absolute word error rate (WER) reduction when compared with the conventionally-trained baseline models.

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