Articulatory feature recognition using dynamic Bayesian networks

  • Authors:
  • Joe Frankel;Mirjam Wester;Simon King

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh, 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, UK;Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh, 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, UK;Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh, 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, UK

  • Venue:
  • Computer Speech and Language
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We describe a dynamic Bayesian network for articulatory feature recognition. The model is intended to be a component of a speech recognizer that avoids the problems of conventional ''beads-on-a-string'' phoneme-based models. We demonstrate that the model gives superior recognition of articulatory features from the speech signal compared with a state-of-the-art neural network system. We also introduce a training algorithm that offers two major advances: it does not require time-aligned feature labels and it allows the model to learn a set of asynchronous feature changes in a data-driven manner.