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Technique for selective use of Gaussian kernels and mixture component weights of tied-mixture hidden Markov models for speech recognition
Technique for selective use of Gaussian kernels and mixture component weights of tied-mixture hidden Markov models for speech recognition
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机译：选择性使用高斯核和混合混合隐马尔可夫模型的混合分量权重进行语音识别的技术
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In a speech recognition system, tied-mixture hidden Markov models (HMMs) are used to match, in the maximum likelihood sense, the phonemes of spoken words given the acoustic input thereof. In a well known manner, such speech recognition requires computation of state observation likelihoods (SOLs). Because of the use of HMMs, each SOL computation involves a substantial number of Gaussian kernels and mixture component weights. In accordance with the invention, the number of Gaussian kernels is cut down to reduce the computational complexity and increase the efficiency of memory access to the kernels. For example, only the non- zero mixture component weights and the Gaussian kernels associated therewith are considered in the SOL computation. In accordance with an aspect of the invention, only a subset of the Gaussian kernels of significant values, regardless of the values of the associated mixture component weights, are considered in the SOL computation. In accordance with another aspect of the invention, at least some of the mixture component weights are quantized to reduce memory space needed to store them. As such, the computational complexity and memory access efficiency are further improved.
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