Reduction of search space in speech recognition using phone boun

Details Reduction of search space in speech recognition using phone boun Reduction of search space in speech recognition using phone boun

1994-11-30

1998-03-17

MacDonald, Allen R.

G10L 506

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ABSTRACT:
A method for estimating the probability of phone boundaries and the accuracy of the acoustic modelling in reducing a search-space in a speech recognition system. The accuracy of the acoustic modelling is quantified by the rank of the correct phone. The system includes a microphone for converting an utterance into an electrical signal, which is processed by an acoustic processor and label match which finds the best-matched acoustic label prototype. A probability distribution on phone boundaries is produced for every time frame using a first decision tree. These probabilities are compared to a threshold and some time frames are identified as boundaries between phones. An acoustic score is computed for all phones between every given pair of hypothesized boundaries, and the phones are ranked on the basis of this score. A second decision tree is traversed for every time frame to obtain the worst case rank of the correct phone at that time, and a short list of allowed phones is made for every time frame. A fast acoustic word match processor matches the label string from the acoustic processor to produce an utterance signal which includes at least one word. From recognition candidates produced by the fast acoustic match and the language model, the detailed acoustic match matches the label string from the acoustic processor against acoustic word models and outputs a word string corresponding to an utterance.

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