Recognizing Connected Digit Strings Using Neural Networks

This paper discusses the usage of feed-forward and recurrent Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in whole word speech recognition The Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) network has been trained to do speaker independent recognition of any series of connected digits in polish language, using only the acoustic features extracted from speech It is also shown how to effectively change the analog network output into binary information on recognized words The parametrs of the conversion are fine-tuned using artificial evolution.