抄録
A hybrid acoustic model of Partly Hidden Markov Model (PHMM) and HMM is proposed. PHMM was proposed in our previous work to deal with the complicated temporal changes of acoustic features. It can realize the observation dependent behaviors in both observations and state transitions. It achieved good performance but some errors with different trend from HMM still remained. In this paper, we designed a new acoustic model on the basis of PHMM, in which the observation and state transition probabilities are defined by the geometric means of PHMM-based ones and HMM-based ones. In this framework, if a word hypothesis is given a low score by either PHMM or HMM, it almost loses possibilities to be a probable candidate. Since many errors are due to the high-scores of incorrect categories rather than the low-score of the correct category, this property contributed to reduce errors. More over, the proposed model is more stable than PHMM because the higher order statistics of PHMM, which is generally accurate but sometimes less reliable, is smoothed by the lower order statistics of HMM, which is not so accurate but robust. Experimental results showed the effectiveness of proposed model: it reduced the word errors by 25% compared with HMM.
本文言語 | English |
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ページ(範囲) | 140-143 |
ページ数 | 4 |
ジャーナル | ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings |
巻 | 1 |
出版ステータス | Published - 2003 9月 25 |
イベント | 2003 IEEE International Conference on Accoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - Hong Kong, Hong Kong 継続期間: 2003 4月 6 → 2003 4月 10 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- ソフトウェア
- 信号処理
- 電子工学および電気工学