• DocumentCode
    3423745
  • Title

    Multi-rate hmm quantization for speech recognition

  • Author

    Vasilache, Marcel

  • Author_Institution
    Nokia, Tampere
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    March 31 2008-April 4 2008
  • Firstpage
    4341
  • Lastpage
    4344
  • Abstract
    This paper refines the idea of scalar quantization for hidden Markov model (HMM) parameters which was introduced in an earlier contribution. With the proposed multi-rate approach it is shown that an increased model compression can be achieved with a significant computational complexity reduction while also closely preserving the recognition performance of the original models.
  • Keywords
    computational complexity; data compression; hidden Markov models; quantisation (signal); speech recognition; computational complexity reduction; hidden Markov model; model compression; multi rate HMM scalar quantization; speech recognition; Acoustic devices; Computational complexity; Engines; Feature extraction; Hidden Markov models; Loudspeakers; Mobile computing; Portable computers; Quantization; Speech recognition; Hidden Markov models; Quantization; Speech recognition;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2008. ICASSP 2008. IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Las Vegas, NV
  • ISSN
    1520-6149
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1483-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1520-6149
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518616
  • Filename
    4518616