Scalar quantization of features in discrete hidden Markov models

Ramachandrula, Sitaram and Thippur, Sreenivas (1997) Scalar quantization of features in discrete hidden Markov models. In: 1997 International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing, ICICS, 9-12 September, Singapore, Vol.1, 537-540.

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Abstract

Traditionally, discrete hidden Markov models (DHMM) use vector quantized speech feature vectors. In this paper, we propose scalar quantization of each element of the speech feature vector in the D-HMM formulation. The alteration required in the D-HMM algorithms for this modification is discussed here. Later, a comparison is made between the performance of D-HMM based speech recognizers using scalar and vector quantization of speech features respectively. A speaker independent TIMIT vowel classification experiment is chosen for this task. It is observed that the scalar quantization of features enhances the vowel classification accuracy by 8 to 9 %, compared to VQ based D-HMM. Also, the number of HMM parameters to estimate from a given amount of training data has drastically reduced in the new idea

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publisher:	IEEE
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Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Communication Engineering
Date Deposited:	22 Aug 2008
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:35
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/9842

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