Publication

Hierarchical Tandem Features for ASR in Mandarin

Hervé Bourlard, Mathew Magimai Doss
2010
Reports

Abstract

We apply multilayer perceptron (MLP) based hierarchical Tandem features to large vocabulary continuous speech recognition in Mandarin. Hierarchical Tandem features are estimated using a cascade of two MLP classifiers which are trained independently. The first classifier is trained on perceptual linear predictive coefficients with a 90 ms temporal context. The second classifier is trained using the phonetic class conditional probabilities estimated by the first MLP, but with a relatively longer temporal context of about 150 ms. Experiments on the Mandarin DARPA GALE eval06 dataset show significant reduction (about 7.6% relative) in character error rates by using hierarchical Tandem features over conventional Tandem features.

Official source

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/c5d90b09-ff89-4f6e-b420-c2086009ae95

About this result

This page is automatically generated and may contain information that is not correct, complete, up-to-date, or relevant to your search query. The same applies to every other page on this website. Please make sure to verify the information with EPFL's official sources.

Graph Chat

Chat with Graph Search

Ask any question about EPFL courses, lectures, exercises, research, news, etc. or try the example questions below.

DISCLAIMER: The Graph Chatbot is not programmed to provide explicit or categorical answers to your questions. Rather, it transforms your questions into API requests that are distributed across the various IT services officially administered by EPFL. Its purpose is solely to collect and recommend relevant references to content that you can explore to help you answer your questions.

Hervé Bourlard, Mathew Magimai Doss
2010
Reports

Abstract

Official source

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/c5d90b09-ff89-4f6e-b420-c2086009ae95

About this result

Related concepts (14)

Multilayer perceptron

A multilayer perceptron (MLP) is a misnomer for a modern feedforward artificial neural network, consisting of fully connected neurons with a nonlinear kind of activation function, organized in at least three layers, notable for being able to distinguish data that is not linearly separable. It is a misnomer because the original perceptron used a Heaviside step function, instead of a nonlinear kind of activation function (used by modern networks).

Feedforward neural network

A feedforward neural network (FNN) is one of the two broad types of artificial neural network, characterized by direction of the flow of information between its layers. Its flow is uni-directional, meaning that the information in the model flows in only one direction—forward—from the input nodes, through the hidden nodes (if any) and to the output nodes, without any cycles or loops, in contrast to recurrent neural networks, which have a bi-directional flow.

Convolutional neural network

Convolutional neural network (CNN) is a regularized type of feed-forward neural network that learns feature engineering by itself via filters (or kernel) optimization. Vanishing gradients and exploding gradients, seen during backpropagation in earlier neural networks, are prevented by using regularized weights over fewer connections. For example, for each neuron in the fully-connected layer 10,000 weights would be required for processing an image sized 100 × 100 pixels.

Related publications (4)

Hierarchical Tandem Features for ASR in Mandarin

Chat with Graph Search

Estimating Phoneme Class Conditional Probabilities from Raw Speech Signal using Convolutional Neural Networks

Multi-stream Processing for Noise Robust Speech Recognition

Text detection and recognition in images and video sequences