Abstract:Abstract-Today's speech recognition systems are based on hidden Markov models (HMMs) with Gaussian mixture models whose parameters are estimated using a discriminative training criterion such as Maximum Mutual Information (MMI) or Minimum Phone Error (MPE). Currently, the optimization is almost always done with (empirical variants of) Extended Baum-Welch (EBW). This type of optimization requires sophisticated update schemes for the step sizes and a considerable amount of parameter tuning, and only little is kn… Show more
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