A neural network based, speaker independent, large vocabulary, continuous speech recognition system: the WERNICKE project

International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), USA(Author list is alphabetical with the exception of the typist.)ABSTRACTThis paper describes the research underway for the ESPRITWERNICKE project. The project brings together a num-ber of different groups from Europe and the US and focuseson extending the state-of-the-art for hybrid hidden Markovmodel/connectionist approaches to large vocabulary, continu-ous speech recognition. Thispaper describes the specific goalsoftheresearchandpresentstheworkperformedtodate. Resultsare reported for the resource management talker-independentrecognition task. The paper concludes with a discussion of theprojected future work.Keywords: Recognition, Neural Nets, HMM.1. BACKGROUNDW

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