Weighted distance measures for efficient reduction of Gaussian mixture components in HMM-based acoustic model

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4173-4176

  Ogawa, Atsunori ^a   Takahashi, Satoshi ^b  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic model; Distance measure; Gaussian mixture component reduction; Mixture weight; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; DISTANCE MEASURE; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE COMPONENT REDUCTION; MIXTURE WEIGHT; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MIXTURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; TRELLIS CODES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 51449089545     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518574     Document Type: Conference Paper

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