ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1997
ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1997

Designing a reduced feature-vector set for speech recognition by using KL/GPD competitive training

Tsuneo Nitta, Akinori Kawamura

The hybrid algorithm of SMQ (Statistical Matrix Quantization) and HMM shows high performance in vocabulary-unspecific, speaker-independent speech recognition, however, it needs lots of computation and memory at the stage of the segment quantizer of SMQ. In this paper, we propose a newly developed, two-stage segment quantizer with a feature extractor based on KL expansion and a classifier, that can be trained by using competitive training of KL/GPD. Result of experiments shows 1/30 - 1/40 reduction in both computation time and a memory size with the same performance that the old version of SMQ shows.