A DTW-based dissimilarity measure for left-to-right hidden Markov models and its application to word confusability analysis

INTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 2338-2341

  Huo, Qiang ^a   Li, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Dissimilarity measure; Hidden Markov model; Kullback Leibler divergence; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL TESTS; TRELLIS CODES;

CONTINUOUS DENSITY HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; DISSIMILARITY MEASURES; DISTORTION MEASURES; DYNAMIC TIME WARPING; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL (GMMS); KULLBACK LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; MIXTURE OF GAUSSIANS; SYLLABLE RECOGNITION;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 34547501979     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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