GENERALIZED MINIMAL DISTORTION SEGMENTATION FOR ANN-BASED SPEECH RECOGNITION

Abstract

A generalized minimal distortion segmentation algorithm is proposed to solve the time alignment problem for ANN-based speech recognition. By modeling dynamics of spectral information of an acoustic segment with smooth curves obtained by orthonormal polynomial expansion, a speech signal is optimally divided into segments and then recognized by an MLP recognizer. Experimental results showed that the proposed method outperforms the standard CDHMM method.