A hybrid SVM/DDBHMM decision fusion modeling for robust continuous digital speech recognition

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 912-920

  Liu, Jingwei ^a,b   Wang, Zuoying ^b   Xiao, Xi ^b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Duration distribution based hidden Markov model (DDBHMM); Gaussian mixture model; Speech recognition; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION TABLES; ERROR CORRECTION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

DURATION DISTRIBUTION BASED HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (DDBHMM); GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS; WORD ERROR RATE REDUCTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33947158566     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2006.12.007     Document Type: Article

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