A hybrid algorithm for estimation of the parameters of hidden Markov model based acoustic modeling of speech signals using constraint-based genetic algorithm and expectation maximization

Proceedings - 6th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, ICIS 2007; 1st IEEE/ACIS International Workshop on e-Activity, IWEA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 438-443

  Huda, Md Shamsul ^a   Yearwood, John ^a   Ghosh, Ranadhir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMMUNICATION; CYBERNETICS; DIESEL ENGINES; ESTIMATION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SCIENCE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; MODAL ANALYSIS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SENSOR NETWORKS; SPEECH; STANDARDS;

(E ,3E) PROCESS; ACOUSTIC MODELLING; CONSTRAINT-BASED; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE (MATHEMATICS); E M ALGORITHMS; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION (EM); EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION (EM) ALGORITHMS; EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; GENETIC ALGORITHM (GA); GLOBAL MAXIMUM; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (HMM); HIGHLY SENSITIVE; HYBRID ALGORITHM (HA); INITIAL VALUES; INTERNATIONAL (CO); INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LEARNING METHODS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOCAL MAXIMUM; MARKOV MODELLING; MODEL PARAMETERS; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; SEARCH SPACES; SPEECH CORPORA; SPEECH SIGNALS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 46749083392     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIS.2007.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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