Robust Recognition of Conversational Telephone Speech via Multi-condition Training and Data Augmentation

In this paper, we focus on automatic recognition of telephone conversational speech in scenario, when no amount of genuine telephone recordings is available for training. The training set contains only data from a significantly different domain, such as recording of broadcast news. Significant mismatch arises between training and test conditions, which leads to deteriorated performance of the resulting recognition system. We aim to diminish this mismatch using the data augmentation.