A Markov random field based multi-band model

An extension of the multi-band model including inter-band control of time asynchrony is described. It is based on the framework of Markov random fields. The law of the speech process is given by a parametric Gibbs distribution and a maximum likelihood parameter estimation algorithm is developed. This random field model is applied to isolated word recognition. It is shown that similar performances are obtained with the new model and with standard HMM techniques in the mono-band case. In the multi-band case, it is shown that the recognition rate decreases when the number of bands is increased but that modeling inter-band synchrony limits the performance decrease