Revisiting Semi-Continuous Hidden Markov Models

  • In the past decade, semi-continuous hidden Markov models (SCHMMs) have not attracted much attention in the speech recognition community. Growing amounts of training data and increasing sophistication of model estimation led to the impression that continuous HMMs are the best choice of acoustic model. However, recent work on recognition of under-resourced languages faces the same old problem of estimating a large number of parameters from limited amounts of transcribed speech. This has led to a renewed interest in methods of reducing the number of parameters while maintaining or extending the modeling capabilities of continuous models. In this work, we compare classic and multiple-codebook semi-continuous models using diagonal and full covariance matrices with continuous HMMs and subspace Gaussian mixture models. Experiments on the RM and WSJ corpora show that while a classical semicontinuous system does not perform as well as a continuous one, multiple-codebook semi-continuous systems can perform better, particular when using full-covariance Gaussians.

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Author:Korbinian Riedhammer, Tobias Bocklet, Arnab Goshal, Daniel Povey
Parent Title (English):2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Kyoto, Japan, March 2012.
Publisher:IEEE
Document Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Publication Year:2012
Tag:acoustic modeling; automatic speech recognition
First Page:4721
Last Page:4724
faculties / departments:Fakultät für Informatik
Dewey Decimal Classification:0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke