Pseudo 2-dimensional hidden Markov models in speech recognition

S. Werner1, G. Rigoll1
1Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Gerhard Mercator University of Duisburg, Germany

Tóm tắt

In this paper, the usage of pseudo 2-dimensional hidden Markov models for speech recognition is discussed. This image processing method should better model the time-frequency structure in speech signals. The method calculates the emission probability of a standard HMM by embedded HMM for each state. If a temporal sequence of spectral vectors is imagined as a spectrogram, this leads to a 2-dimensional warping of the spectrogram. This additional warping of the frequency axis could be useful for speaker-independent recognition and can be considered to be similar to a vocal tract normalization. The effects of this paradigm are investigated in this paper using the TI-Digits database.

Từ khóa

#Hidden Markov models #Speech recognition #Feature extraction #Image processing #Speech processing #Spectrogram #Computer science #Signal processing #Frequency #Databases

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