Adaptation of Hidden Markov models using maximum model distance algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 270-276

  He, Q H ^a   Kwong, S ^b   Hong, Q Y ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Hidden Markov model; Maximum model distance; Speaker adaptation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LINGUISTICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MAXIMUM MODEL DISTANCE ALGORITHM; MAXIMUM MUTUAL INFORMATION; SPEAKER ADAPTATION;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 1542500506     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2003.818884     Document Type: Letter

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