Speech trajectory discrimination using the minimum classification error learning

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 505-515

  Chengalvarayan, Rathinavelu ^a   Deng, Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Mce training; Mixture trended hmm; Phonetic classification; Trajectory

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM); MINIMUM CLASSIFICATION ERROR LEARNING; SPEECH TRAJECTORY DISCRIMINATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032206267     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.725317     Document Type: Article

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