ROBUST HMM ESTIMATION WITH GAUSSIAN MERGING-SPLITTING AND TIED-TRANSFORM HMMS

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Sankar, Ananth ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MERGING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC SPACES; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; GAUSSIANS; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; MODEL ESTIMATION; MODEL USE; ROBUST ESTIMATION; SPLITTING ALGORITHMS; SPLITTINGS; TRAINING TECHNIQUES;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 2442442194     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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