GMM-HMM acoustic model training by a two level procedure with Gaussian components determined by automatic model selection

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4890-4893

  Su, Dan ^a   Wu, Xihong ^a   Xu, Lei ^a,b  

^a Peking University   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bayesian Ying Yang learning; GMMs; HMMs; Model selection; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; TRELLIS CODES;

ACOUSTIC MODEL TRAININGS; AUTOMATIC MODEL SELECTION; BAUM-WELCH ALGORITHMS; BAYESIAN YING-YANG LEARNING; GAUSSIAN COMPONENTS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; HIDDEN MARKOV; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; MODEL SELECTION; MODEL-BASED OPC;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 78049356154     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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