ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1989
ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1989

Robust lexical access for continuous speech using dynamic time warping and finite-state transducers

Henry S. Thompson, David McKelvie, Fergus R. McInnes

This paper presents an approach to lexical access in continuous speech recognition systems based on dynamic time warping at the phoneme level, implemented using finite-state transducers. Robustness is thereby achieved in the face of both contingent and necessary imperfections in the phoneme lattice from which lexical access starts. Issues of training, evaluation and context-sensitivity are discussed.