Discriminative training of variable-parameter HMMs for noise robust speech recognition

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 285-288

  Yu, Dong ^a   Deng, Li ^a   Gong, Yifan ^a   Acero, Alex ^a  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Cubic spline; Discriminative training; Growth transformation; Speech recognition; Variable parameter hidden markov model

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS FUNCTIONS; CUBIC SPLINE; DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING; GAUSSIAN MIXTURES; GROWTH TRANSFORMATION; MODEL PARAMETERS; NEW MODEL; NOISE ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; NOISE SUPPRESSORS; PARAMETER SHARING; TRANSFORMATION ALGORITHM; VARIABLE-PARAMETER HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; WORD ERROR RATE;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPLINES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867216961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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