A statistical discrimination measure for hidden Markov models based on divergence

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 657-660

  Silva, Jorge ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth S ^a  

^a Viterbi School of Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TOPOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; ANALYTICAL FORMULATION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; DISCRIMINATION INFORMATIONS; DIVERGENCE DISTANCE; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMMS); STANDARD MODEL; TRANSIENT BEHAVIOR;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 85009115388     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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