Discriminative transformation for speech features based on genetic algorithm and HMM likelihoods

IEICE Electronics Express

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 247-253

  Zamani, Behzad ^a   Akbari, Ahmad ^a   Nasersharif, Babak ^a,b   Mohammadi, Mehdi ^a   Jalalvand, Azarakhsh ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUILAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithm; Minimum classification error; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; DISCRIMINATIVE FEATURES; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; FEATURE TRANSFORMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CRITERION; MINIMUM CLASSIFICATION ERROR; PARAMETER LEARNING; PHONE RECOGNITION; PHONEME RECOGNITION; SPEECH FEATURES; TRAINING PHASE; TRANSFORMATION METHODS;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 77649124337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13492543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/elex.7.247     Document Type: Article

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