Discriminative training with tied covariance matrices

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 705-708

  Macherey, Wolfgang ^a   Schlüter, Ralf ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TRELLIS CODES;

CONTINUOUS DISTRIBUTION; COVARIANCE MATRICES; DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING; IMPROVED CONVERGENCE; LARGE VOCABULARY SPEECH RECOGNITION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; QUADRATIC INEQUALITY; STABLE CONVERGENCE;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 85009073035     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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