The efficient incorporation of MLP features into automatic speech recognition systems

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 519-534

  Park, J ^a   Diehl, F ^a   Gales, M J F ^a   Tomalin, M ^a   Woodland, P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic modelling; Automatic speech recognition; MLP feature; Speaker adaptation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT; ACOUSTIC FEATURES; ACOUSTIC MODEL; ACOUSTIC MODELLING; ADAPTATION SCHEME; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; BROADCAST CONVERSATION; BROADCAST NEWS; CONSISTENT PERFORMANCE; DESIGN DECISIONS; DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING; LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA; LARGE VOCABULARY SPEECH RECOGNITION; MLP FEATURE; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; MULTI-PASS; NETWORK ADAPTATION; PERFORMANCE GAIN; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEED-UPS; SUB-SYSTEMS; TEST DATA; TRAINING CORPUS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; STANDARDS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79251574977     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2010.07.005     Document Type: Article

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