Title
Posterior features applied to speech recognition tasks with user-defined vocabulary
Abstract
This paper presents a novel approach for those applications where vocabulary is defined by a set of acoustic samples. In this approach, the acoustic samples are used as reference templates in a template matching framework. The features used to describe the reference templates and the test utterances are estimates of phoneme posterior probabilities. These posteriors are obtained from a MLP trained on an auxiliary database. Thus, the speech variability present in the features is reduced by applying the speech knowledge captured by the MLP on the auxiliary database. Moreover, information theoretic dissimilarity measures can be used as local distances between features. When compared to state-of-the-art systems, this approach outperforms acoustic-based techniques and obtains comparable results to orthography-based methods. The proposed method can also be directly combined with other posterior-based HMM systems. This combination successfully exploits the complementarity between templates and parametric models.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960457
ICASSP
Keywords
Field
DocType
acoustic-based technique,local distance,speech knowledge,acoustic sample,novel approach,user-defined vocabulary,kullback-leibler divergence,index terms— speech recognition,poste- rior features,template matching,reference template,information theoretic dissimilarity measure,speech variability present,speech recognition task,auxiliary database,obtains comparable result,parametric statistics,speech recognition,information theory,parametric model,indexing terms,posterior probability,decoding,hidden markov models,automatic speech recognition,kullback leibler divergence
Information theory,Template matching,Parametric model,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Speech recognition,Posterior probability,Orthography,Artificial intelligence,Template,Hidden Markov model,Vocabulary
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1520-6149
8
1.00
References 
Authors
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guillermo Aradilla1655.42
Herve Bourlard215237.75
Mathew Magimai-Doss351654.76