• DocumentCode
    3008281
  • Title

    Maximum mutual information estimation of hidden Markov model parameters for speech recognition

  • Author

    Bahl, L. ; Brown, Peter F. ; De Souza, Peter V. ; Mercer, Robert L.

  • Author_Institution
    IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
  • Volume
    11
  • fYear
    1986
  • fDate
    31503
  • Firstpage
    49
  • Lastpage
    52
  • Abstract
    A method for estimating the parameters of hidden Markov models of speech is described. Parameter values are chosen to maximize the mutual information between an acoustic observation sequence and the corresponding word sequence. Recognition results are presented comparing this method with maximum likelihood estimation.
  • Keywords
    Acoustic waves; Hidden Markov models; Loudspeakers; Maximum likelihood decoding; Maximum likelihood estimation; Mutual information; Parameter estimation; Random variables; Speech processing; Speech recognition;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE International Conference on ICASSP '86.
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICASSP.1986.1169179
  • Filename
    1169179
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3008281