A speaker-stress resistant HMM isolated word recognizer

Most current speech recognition systems are sensitive to variations in speaker style, the following is the result of an effort to make a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) Isolated Word Recognizer (IWR) tolerant to such speech changes caused by speaker stress. More than an order-of-magnitude reduction of the error rate was achieved for a 105 word simulated stress database and a 0% error rate was achieved for the TI 20 isolated word database.

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