Spontaneous speech recognition using a statistical model .of VTR-dynamics

18/08/98


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Spontaneous speech recognition using a statistical model .of VTR-dynamics

VTR-model evaluation. ---overview

What is new

What is new (con’t)

Mathematical formulation.of the model

VTR-dynamics Illustration

Stochastic nonlinear “supersegment” model

Likelihood computation

Extended Kalman Filter

ML parameter estimation of nonlinear model: EM algorithm

EM algorithm (con’t)

Economy of model parameters

Initial experiment (A)

Large-scale experiments. ---- conditions

Results: 1241 male test utterances

Speaker variation in WER

Explain why the VTR model does the right job

Model synthesis (correct hypothesis; VTR by EKF)

Model synthesis (incorrect hypothesis; EKF)

Future work (short term)

Future work (long term)

PPT Slide

Model synthesis (correct hypothesis)

Model synthesis (incorrect; model parameters)

Experimental Setup

Initial experiment (B)

Initial experiment (C)

Author: DR DENG

Email: deng@crg5.uwaterloo.ca

Home Page: sip.uwaterloo.ca

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