An application of minimum classification error to feature space transformations for speech recognition

Speech Communication

Volumn 20, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 273-290

  De La Torre, Ángel ^a   Peinado, Antonio M ^a   Rubio, Antonio J ^a   Sánchez, Victoria E ^a   Díaz, Jesús E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clustering; Cost function; Discriminative feature extraction (DFE); Distance measure; Error rate; Feature space transformation; Hidden Markov model (HMM); Liftering; Minimum classification error (MCE); Probability density function (pdf); Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

FEATURE SPACE TRANSFORMATIONS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030379378     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(96)00061-1     Document Type: Article

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