Title
A diphone-based digit recognition system using neural networks
Abstract
In exploring new ways of looking at speech data, we have developed an alternative method of segmentation for training a neural-network-based digit-recognition system. Whereas previous methods segment the data into monophones, biphones, or triphones and train on each sub-phone unit in several broad-category contexts, our new method uses modified diphones to train on the regions of greatest spectral change as well as the regions of greatest stability. Although we account for regions of spectral stability, we do not require their presence in our word models. Empirical evidence for the advantage of this new method is seen by the 13% reduction in word-level error that was achieved on a test set of the OGI Numbers corpus. Comparison was made to a baseline system that used context-independent monophones and context-dependent biphones and triphones
Year
DOI
Venue
1997
10.1109/ICASSP.1997.595516
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1997. ICASSP-97., 1997 IEEE International Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
acoustic signal processing,learning (artificial intelligence),neural nets,speech processing,speech recognition,OGI Numbers corpus,context-dependent biphones,context-dependent triphones,context-independent monophones,diphone-based digit recognition system,neural networks,segmentation,spectral change,spectral stability,word models,word-level error
Speech enhancement,Speech processing,Diphone,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Segmentation,Context model,Speech recognition,NIST,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network,Test set
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4
1520-6149
0-8186-7919-0
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.39
3
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
John-Paul Hosom120.39
Ronald A. Cole2686187.46