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Method and apparatus for a parameter sharing speech recognition system

US6006186A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 16, 1997
Grant dateDec 21, 1999
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Expiry dateOct 16, 2017

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L15/148
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for a parameter sharing speech recognition system are provided. Speech signals are received into a processor of a speech recognition system. The speech signals are processed using a speech recognition system hosting a shared hidden Markov model (HMM) produced by generating a number of phoneme models, some of which are shared. The phoneme models are generated by retaining as a separate phoneme model any triphone model having a number of trained frames available that exceeds a prespecified threshold. A shared phoneme model is generated to represent each of the groups of triphone phoneme models for which the number of trained frames having a common biphone exceed the prespecified threshold. A shared phoneme model is generated to represent each of the groups of triphone phoneme models for which the number of trained frames having an equivalent effect on a phonemic context exceed the prespecified threshold. A shared phoneme model is generated to represent each of the groups of triphone phoneme models having the same center context. The generated phoneme models are trained, and shared phoneme model states are generated that are shared among the phoneme models. S…

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