Adaptation of hybrid ANN/HMM models using linear hidden transformations and conservative training

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Gemello, Roberto ^a   Mana, Franco ^a   Scanzio, Stefano ^b   Laface, Pietro ^b   De Mori, Renato ^c  

^a Loquendo   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CONSERVATIVE TRAINING; FEATURE SPACE; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 33947703156     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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