Handling Context-Dependencies in Speech by LVQ

In the framework of phonemic speech recognition using codebooks trained by Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ) together with Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), a novel way to model context-dependencies in speech is presented. We use LVQ to map acoustic contextual data into context-independent phonemic form. The contextual data is in the form of concatenated averages of successive short-time feature vectors. This mapping eliminates the need to employ context dependent phonemic HMMs and the difficulties associated therein. Instead, simpler context-independent discrete observation HMMs suffice. We report excellent results for a speaker dependent task for Finnish.

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