Re:Single Speaker Speech Recognition with Hidden Markov Models
by iori42 on Friday May 23, 2014 @04:04AM
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In my experience Viterbi training alone is often enough to get reasonable accuracy, at least in speech recognition.
Instead of doing the more costly Baum-Welch training you can spend your time better elsewhere, e.g. use deep neural networks instead of GMMs or collect more data.
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Re:Single Speaker Speech Recognition with Hidden Markov Models
by kastnerkyle on Friday May 23, 2014 @04:44AM
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Interesting - I've never tried Viterbi training. Maybe it is worth implementing after all. I plan to do a hybrid DNN-HMM (or whatever it is called now) with pylearn2 in a followup post.