Online adaptation of hidden Markov models using incremental estimation algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 253-261

  Digalakis, Vassilios V ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHM; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; INCREMENTAL ESTIMATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032655793     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.759031     Document Type: Article

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