Comments on “efficient training algorithms for hmm’s using incremental estimation”

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 751-754

  Byrne, William ^a   Gunawardana, Asela ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Em algorithm; Hidden markov models; Incremental estimation; Maximum likelihood estimation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ALTERNATING EXPECTATION CONDITIONAL MAXIMIZATION; EFFICIENT TRAINING ALGORITHMS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; INCREMENTAL ESTIMATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0034324646     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.876315     Document Type: Article

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