Cluster Adaptive Training of Hidden Markov Models

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 417-427

  Gales, Mark J F ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR CORRECTION; INTERPOLATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

CLUSTER ADAPTIVE TRAINING (CAT); HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0034227757     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.848223     Document Type: Article

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