Large-vocabulary dictation using SRI's DECIPHERTM speech recognition system: progressive search techniques

  • Authors:
  • Hy Murveit;John Butzberger;Vassilios Digalakis;Mitch Weintraub

  • Affiliations:
  • SRI International;SRI International;SRI International;SRI International

  • Venue:
  • ICASSP'93 Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE international conference on Acoustics, speech, and signal processing: speech processing - Volume II
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

We describe a technique we call Progressive Search which is useful for developing and implementing speech recognition systems with high computational requirements. The scheme iteratively uses more and more complex recognition schemes, where each iteration constrains the search space of the next. An algorithm, the Forward-Backward Word-Life Algorithm, is described. It can generate a word lattice in a progressive search that would be used as a language model embedded in a succeeding recognition pass to reduce computation requirements. We show that speed-ups of more than an order of magnitude are achievable with only minor costs in accuracy.