Maximum accept and reject (MARS) training of HMM-GMM speech recognition systems

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 956-959

  Tyagi, Vivek ^a  

^a IBM INDIA RESEARCH LAB   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; CURRENT FRAME; LANGUAGE MODEL; MAXIMUM MUTUAL INFORMATION; OPTIMIZATION FUNCTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; TEST CONDITION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; STEREOPHONIC BROADCASTING; TELEPHONE SETS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867192138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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