Nonlinear mapping for feature extraction in automatic speech recognition
The present invention successfully combines neural-net discriminative feature processing with Gaussian-mixture distribution modeling (GMM). By training one or more neural networks to generate subword probability posteriors, then using transformations of these estimates as the base features for a con...
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Format | Patent |
Language | English |
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07.08.2007
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Summary: | The present invention successfully combines neural-net discriminative feature processing with Gaussian-mixture distribution modeling (GMM). By training one or more neural networks to generate subword probability posteriors, then using transformations of these estimates as the base features for a conventionally-trained Gaussian-mixture based system, substantial error rate reductions may be achieved. The present invention effectively has two acoustic models in tandem-first a neural net and then a GMM. By using a variety of combination schemes available for connectionist models, various systems based upon multiple features streams can be constructed with even greater error rate reductions. |
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