Discriminative feature weighting for HMM-based continuous speech recognizers

Authors:
Ángel de la Torre;Antonio M. Peinado;Antonio J. Rubio;José C. Segura;Carmen Benítez
Affiliations:
Departamento Electrónica y Tecnología de Computadores, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain;Departamento Electrónica y Tecnología de Computadores, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain;Departamento Electrónica y Tecnología de Computadores, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain;Departamento Electrónica y Tecnología de Computadores, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain;Departamento Electrónica y Tecnología de Computadores, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Venue:
Speech Communication
Year:
2002

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Abstract

The Discriminative Feature Extraction (DFE) method provides an appropriate formalism for the design of the front-end feature extraction module in pattern classification systems. In the recent years, this formalism has been successfully applied to different speech recognition problems, like classification of vowels, classification of phonemes or isolated word recognition. The DFE formalism can be applied to weight the contribution of the components in the feature vector. This variant of DFE, that we call Discriminative Feature Weighting (DFW), improves the pattern classification systems by enhancing those components more relevant for the discrimination among the different classes. This paper is dedicated to the application of the DFW formalism to Continuous Speech Recognizers (CSR) based on Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). Two different types of HMM-based speech recognizers are considered: recognizers based on Discrete-HMMs (DHMMs) (for which the acoustic evaluation is based on an Euclidean distance measure) and Semi-Continuous-HMMs (SCHMMs) (for which the acoustic evaluation is performed making use of a mixture of multivariated Gaussians). We report how the components can be weighted and how the weights can be discriminatively trained and applied to the speech recognizers. We present recognition results for several continuous speech recognition tasks. The experimental results show the utility of DFW for HMM-based continuous speech recognizers.