Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition

Download or read book Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition written by Frederick Jelinek and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1998-01-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects decades of important research on the mathematical foundations of speech recognition. It focuses on underlying statistical techniques such as hidden Markov models, decision trees, the expectation-maximization algorithm, information theoretic goodness criteria, maximum entropy probability estimation, parameter and data clustering, and smoothing of probability distributions. The author's goal is to present these principles clearly in the simplest setting, to show the advantages of self-organization from real data, and to enable the reader to apply the techniques.