Acoustic modeling using exponential families

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1423-1426

  Goel, Vaibhava ^a   Olsen, Peder ^a  

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

Author keywords

Acoustic modeling; Exponential families; Hybrid Monte Carlo; Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling; Metropolis

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODELING; EXPONENTIAL FAMILY; FEATURE VECTORS; HYBRID MONTE CARLO; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO PROCEDURES; ML ESTIMATION; MODELING FLEXIBILITY; PARTITION FUNCTIONS; SAMPLING-BASED;

ACOUSTICS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 70450206013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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