Discovering relations among discriminative training objectives [speak recognition applications]

Author

Li, Qi

Author_Institution

Li Creative Technol. (LcT) Inc., New Providence, NJ, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

17-21 May 2004

Abstract

In this paper, the relations among several discriminative training objectives for speech and speaker recognition, language processing, and dynamic pattern recognition are derived and discovered through theoretical analysis. Those objectives are the minimum classification error (MCE), maximum mutual information (MMI), minimum error rate (MER), and a recently proposed generalized minimum error rate (GMER) objectives. The results show that all the objectives are related to the a posteriori probability and error rates, and the MCE and GMER objectives are more general and flexible than the MMI and MER objectives. These results can help in understanding the discriminative objectives, in improving recognition performances, and in discovering new training algorithms jointly with objectives.

Keywords

error statistics; optimisation; parameter estimation; pattern classification; pattern recognition; speech recognition; GMER; MCE; MER; MMI; a posteriori probability rates; discriminative training objective relations; dynamic pattern recognition; generalized minimum error rate; language processing; maximum mutual information; minimum classification error; optimization methods; parameter estimation; pattern classification; pattern recognition; recognition performance; speaker recognition; speech recognition; training algorithms; Computer errors; Error analysis; Mutual information; Natural languages; Pattern analysis; Pattern recognition; Performance analysis; Speaker recognition; Speech analysis; Speech processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2004. Proceedings. (ICASSP '04). IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8484-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2004.1325915

Filename

1325915