A Markov Random Field Approach to Bayesian Speaker Adaptation

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 183-191

  Shahshahani, Ben M ^a,b  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian learning; MAP estimation; Markov random fields; Speaker adaptation; Speaker normalization

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LOUDSPEAKERS; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; VECTORS;

BAYESIAN SPEAKER ADAPTATION; CROSS ALLOPHONE CORRELATIONS; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS (MRF);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031103747     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.554780     Document Type: Article

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