A constrained Baum-Welch algorithm for improved phoneme segmentation and efficient training

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1205-1208

  Huggins Daines, David ^a   Rudnicky, Alexander I ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Hidden markov models; Phoneme recognition; Speech segmentation; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

BAUM-WELCH ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; FORWARD-AND-BACKWARD; PHONEME RECOGNITION; SPEECH SEGMENTATION;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 44949126431     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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