Automatic Language Identification using Ergodic-HMM

SantoshKumar, SA and Ramasubramanian, V (2005) Automatic Language Identification using Ergodic-HMM. In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP '05, 18-23 March, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Vol.1, 609-612.

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Abstract

Recently, we established the equivalence of an ergodic HMM (EHMM) to a parallel sub-word recognition (PSWR) framework for language identification (LID). The states of EHMM correspond to acoustic units of a language and its state transitions represent the bigram language model of unit sequences. We consider two alternatives to represent the state-observation densities of EHMM, namely, the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) and hidden Markov model (HMM). We present a segmental K-means algorithm for the training of both these types of EHMM (EHMM of GMMs and EHMM of HMMs) and compare their performances on a 6 language LID task in the OGI-TS database. EHMM of GMMs has a performance comparable to PSWR and superior than EHMM of HMMs; we provide reasons for the performance difference between EHMM(G) and EHMM(H), and identify ways of enhancing the performance of EHMM(H) which is a novel and powerful architecture, ideal for spoken language modeling.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publisher:	IEEE
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Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Communication Engineering
Date Deposited:	30 Nov 2007
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:35
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/9848

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