Title :
BEAM. An accelerator for speech recognition
Author :
Bisiani, R. ; Anantharaman, T. ; Butcher, L.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sic., Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
BEAM is a hardware accelerator that has been designed and built for real-time execution of the SPHINX speaker-independent, continuous-speech recognition system and similar systems. SPHINX on BEAM is able to recognize sentences from a 1000-word vocabulary and a perplexity-60 grammar in about 1.3 times real time. BEAM does not use any custom integrated circuits. The architecture of the accelerator is described. Performance data are given and compared with those for other architectures. It is concluded that BEAM demonstrates how general-purpose technology can be used to build systems that are substantially faster than general-purpose systems
Keywords :
computer architecture; real-time systems; speech recognition; voice equipment; BEAM; SPHINX; architecture; hardware accelerator; real-time execution; speech recognition; Application specific integrated circuits; Computer science; Hardware; Hidden Markov models; Particle beams; Real time systems; Resource management; Speech recognition; Vocabulary; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1989. ICASSP-89., 1989 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Glasgow
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.1989.266544
