Speech recognition using linear dynamic models

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 246-256

  Frankel, Joe ^a   King, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition (ASR); Linear dynamic models (LDMs); Stack decoding

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS DECODING; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR); AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; COVARIANCE MATRICES; DERIVATIVE INFORMATIONS; DYNAMIC STATE; FEATURE VECTORS; FIRST ORDERS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURES; LINEAR DYNAMIC MODELS (LDMS); LINEAR STATE-SPACE MODELS; OUTPUT DISTRIBUTIONS; PHONE RECOGNITION; SEGMENT MODELS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; STACK DECODING; STATIC MODELS; UNDERLYING DYNAMICS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; DECODING; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; REMELTING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELEPHONE SETS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

DYNAMIC MODELS;

EID: 34547549792     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.876766     Document Type: Article

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