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Calculating cost measures between HMM acoustic models

US8234116B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 22, 2006
Grant dateJul 31, 2012
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Expiry dateJul 29, 2030

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L15/142
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Measurement of Kullback-Leibler Divergence (KLD) between hidden Markov models (HMM) of acoustic units utilizes an unscented transform to approximate KLD between Gaussian mixtures. Dynamic programming equalizes the number of states between HMMs having a different number of states, while the total KLD of the HMMs is obtained by summing individual KLDs calculated by state pair by state pair comparisons.

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