WORKSHOP EVALUATION CONSTRAINTS

• Practical Constraints:

  
  

  • Integration into a lattice rescoring paradigm difficult

    
    

  • Ignore language model scores in order to focus on acoustic modeling issues

    
    

  • No vocal tract length normalization or speaker adaptation

    
    

  • Convergence during training questionable

    
    

  • Computational resources prohibit large-scale rescoring experiments

    
    

• Solution:

  
  

  • Select male speakers from WS'97 Dev Test

    
    

  • Reserve 10 utterances from each speaker for adaptation

    
    

  • 1241 utterances:
    
    

    • 23 speakers

    • 24 conversation sides

    • 50 minutes of speech