An acoustic model based on kullback-leibler divergence for posterior features

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Aradilla, Guillermo ^a   Vepa, Jithendra ^a   Bourlard, Hervé ^a  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Finite state machine; Hybrid HMM ANN system; KL divergence; Posterior features

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

FINITE STATE MACHINE; GAUSSIAN ASSUMPTION; HYBRID HMM/ANN SYSTEMS; KULLBACK-LCIBLCR (KL) DIVERGENCE; POSTERIOR FEATURES;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 34547522358     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.366998     Document Type: Conference Paper

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