How to build a LVCSR system
(using the Entropic HTK)

17/03/00


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How to build a LVCSR system
(using the Entropic HTK)

A few steps ?

In fact lots of small steps!

The ATIS task

ATIS dictionary

Phone / Word transcriptions

Phone / Word transcriptions

Feature extraction

Feature extraction

HMM topology

HMM parameter estimation

Model initialisation

Model initialisation

Model initialisation

Model re-training

Model re-training

Creating the sp model

Viterbi re-alignment

Creating triphone models

Creating triphone models

Model re-training

Building tied-state triphones

Building tied-state triphones

Building tied-state triphones

Building tied-state triphones

Model re-training

Increase number of mixtures

Adapting the HMM models

Adapting the HMM models

Adapting the HMM models

Building the language model

Building the language model

Building the language model

Viterbi decoding ? N-best lists

Viterbi decoding ? N-best lists

ATIS ASR Results

Conclusions

Author: Roberto Togneri

Email: roberto[@]ee[.]uwa[.]edu[.]au

Home Page: http://www.ee.uwa.edu.au/~roberto