The Titech large vocabulary WFST speech recognition system

In this paper we present evaluations on the large vocabulary speech decoder we are currently developing at Tokyo Institute of Technology. Our goal is to build a fast, scalable, flexible decoder to operate on weighted finite state transducer (WFST) search spaces. Even though the development of the decoder is still in its infancy we have already implemented a impressive feature set and are achieving good accuracy and speed on a large vocabulary spontaneous speech task. We have developed a technique to allow parts of the decoder to be run on the graphics processor, this can lead to a very significant speed up.

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