- Title
- A variable initialization approach to the EM algorithm for better estimation of the parameters of hidden Markov Model based acoustic modeling of speech signals
- Creator
- Huda, Shamsul; Ghosh, Ranadhir; Yearwood, John
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/33756
- Identifier
- vital:1402
- Identifier
- ISBN:0302-9743
- Abstract
- The traditional method for estimation of the parameters of Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based acoustic modeling of speech uses the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm. The EM algorithm is sensitive to initial values of HMM parameters and is likely to terminate at a local maximum of likelihood function resulting in non-optimized estimation for HMM and lower recognition accuracy. In this paper, to obtain better estimation for HMM and higher recognition accuracy, several candidate HMMs are created by applying EM on multiple initial models. The best HMM is chosen from the candidate HMMs which has highest value for likelihood function. Initial models are created by varying maximum frame number in the segmentation step of HMM initialization process. A binary search is applied while creating the initial models. The proposed method has been tested on TIMIT database. Experimental results show that our approach obtains improved values for likelihood function and improved recognition accuracy.; E1
- Publisher
- Leipzig, Germany : Springer
- Relation
- Paper presented at Artificial Intelligence, Advances in Data Mining, Applications in Medicine, Web Mining, Marketing, Image and Signal Mining Conference 2006, Leipzig, Germany : 14th July, 2006 p. 416-430
- Rights
- Copyright Springer
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Algorithm; Variable initialization; Speech
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