Generalized Baum-Welch algorithm and its implication to a new extended Baum-Welch algorithm

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 773-776

  Hsiao, Roger ^a   Schultz, Tanja ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Discriminative training; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

BAUM-WELCH ALGORITHMS; DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING; KL-DIVERGENCE; MODEL SPACES; MODERN STANDARDS; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; REGULARIZATION FUNCTION;

DEGRADATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84865747510     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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