Discriminative training of GMM-HMM acoustic model by RPCL learning

Frontiers of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in China

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 283-290

  Pang, Zaihu ^a   Tu, Shikui ^b   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 harmony learning; discriminative training; hidden Markov model; large vocabulary continuous speech recognition; rival penalized competitive learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958755383     PISSN: 16733460     EISSN: 16733584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11460-011-0152-0     Document Type: Article

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