On divergence based clustering of normal distributions and its application to HMM adaptation

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1517-1520

  Myrvoll, Tor André ^a   Soong, Frank K ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RICCATI EQUATIONS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BASED CLUSTERING; ITS APPLICATIONS; KULLBACK LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORS; MULTI-VARIATE NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; RICCATI MATRIX EQUATIONS; WALL STREET JOURNAL; WORD ERROR RATE;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

EID: 85009182094     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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