Automatic generation of non-uniform context-dependent HMM topologies based on the MDL criterion

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 2721-2724

  Jitsuhiro, Takatoshi ^a   Matsui, Tomoko ^a,b   Nakamura, Satoshi ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; LINGUISTICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; TOPOLOGY;

AUTOMATIC GENERATION; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; CONTROL PARAMETERS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CRITERION; MINIMUM DESCRIPTION LENGTH; PHONETIC DECISION TREE; SUCCESSIVE STATE SPLITTING ALGORITHMS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 85009204321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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