An enhanced dynamic time warping model for improved estimation of DTW parameters

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 216-228

  Yaniv, Ran ^a   Burshtein, David ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Baum inequality; Dynamic time warping (DTW); Hidden Markov model (HMM); Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

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

BAUM-WELCH ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; ENHANCED DYNAMIC TIME WARPING MODEL; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0038782382     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2003.811540     Document Type: Article

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