Title :
A reusable HMM soft-core for isolated word recognition
Author :
Rodellar, V. ; Gonzalez-Concejero, C. ; Carretero, P. ; Alvarez-Marquina, A. ; Gomez-Vilda, P.
Author_Institution :
Departamento de Arquitectura y Tecnologia de Sistemas Informaticos, Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Abstract :
In this paper we introduce a scalable and reusable library component implementation of a HMM that may be used in order to be embedded in the full chain of an isolated word recognition system. Theoretically, the core allows for an unlimited ™scalability in the number of the vocabulary words (L) and in the number of symbols in the observation sequence of the word to be recognized (O). The number of hidden states (N) is also scalable, but limited to 16 and organized as a Bakis´ model. The hardware design has been modeled in VHDL portable code resulting in a technology independent soft-core.
Keywords :
hardware description languages; hidden Markov models; text analysis; VHDL portable code; hardware design; isolated word recognition system; reusable HMM soft core; vocabulary words; Application software; Design automation; Hardware; Hidden Markov models; Intellectual property; Scalability; Software libraries; Speech synthesis; Time to market; Vocabulary;
Conference_Titel :
Signals, Circuits and Systems, 2005. ISSCS 2005. International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9029-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISSCS.2005.1509914
