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This paper investigates the tandem architecture (TA) based on segmental features. The segmental feature based recognition system has been reported to show better results than the conventional feature based system in previous studies. In this paper we tried to merge the segmental feature with the tandem architecture which uses both hidden Markov models and neural networks. In general, segmental features can be separated into the trend and location. Since the trend means variation of segmental features and since it occupies a large portion of segmental features, the trend information was used as an independent or additional feature for the speech recognition system. We applied the trend information of segmental features to TA and used posterior probabilities, which are the output of the neural network, as inputs of the recognition system. Experiments were performed on Aurora2 database to examine the potentiality of the trend feature based TA. The results of our experiments verified that the proposed system outperforms the conventional system on very low SNR environments. These findings led us to conclude that the trend information on TA can be additionally used for the traditional MFCC features.
He was a visiting researcher at ETRI from May 2006 to Feb. 2007.
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Yun, YS., Lee, Y. (2007). Design of Tandem Architecture Using Segmental Trend Features. In: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4629. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74628-7_49
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