MAP speaker adaptation of state duration distributions for speech recognition

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 443-450

  Yoma, Néstor Becerra ^a   Sánchez, Jorge Silva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Speaker adaptation; Speech recognition; State duration modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; STATE DURATION MODELING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036815682     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2002.803441     Document Type: Article

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