Patent ID: 8798994

Claim:
A method for performing unsupervised speaker adaptations in a resource conservative speaker adaptation system, the method comprising: configuring a value N representing a maximum amount of frames of feature vectors extracted from an utterance for generating a transformation for the utterance regardless of utterance length, wherein configuring the value N comprises: monitoring the availability of one or more processing resources associated with the system, defining resource constraints based on the availability of the one or more processing resources, wherein the resource constraints is an amount of at least one of time, memory, and computer processing cycles available for speaker adaptation purposes, and automatically configuring the value N based on the defined resource constraints that are met, wherein monitoring, defining and configuring are performed dynamically to ensure that unsupervised speaker adaptation processes are able to be performed deterministically within the defined resource constraints; caching N amount frames of feature vectors extracted from the utterance for unsupervised speaker adaptation purposes; creating a transformation from the cache including N amount frames of feature vectors of the utterance; and applying the created transformation during an unsupervised speaker adaptation process.