Maximum-likelihood stochastic-transformation adaptation of hidden markov models

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 177-187

  Diakoloukas, Vassilis D ^a   Digalakis, Vassilios V ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Robust recognition; Speaker adaptation; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR) SYSTEMS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM); MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD STOCHASTIC TRANSFORMATIONS; SPEAKER ADAPTATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033100038     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.748122     Document Type: Article

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