Generalization of extended Baum-Welch parameter estimation for discriminative training and decoding

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 277-280

  Kanevsky, Dimitri ^a   Sainath, Tara N ^b   Ramabhadran, Bhuvana ^a   Nahamoo, David ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUXILIARY FUNCTIONS; BAUM-WELCH; BAUM-WELCH ALGORITHMS; CURRENT MODELS; DIFFERENTIABLE FUNCTIONS; DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING; GENERAL FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRIC MEAN; LEARNING RATES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATE; MODEL PARAMETERS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS;

DECODING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; METAL ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 70349995255     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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