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- the function of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is to determine the lexical identity of spoken utterances.
- the recognition process also referred to as classification, typically begins with the conversion of an analog acoustical signal into a stream of digitally represented spectral vectors or frames which describe important characteristics of the signal at successive time intervals.
- the classification or recognition process is based upon the availability of reference models which describe aspects of the behavior of spectral frames corresponding to different words. A wide variety of models have been developed but they all share the property that they describe the temporal characteristics of spectra typical to particular words or subword segments.
- the sequence of spectral vectors arising from an input utterance is compared with the models and the success with which models of different words predict the behavior of the input frames, determines the putative identity of the utterance.
- HMM Hidden Markov Model
- probabilities may be provided which determine transitions between states.
- the process of computing the probability that an unknown input utterance corresponds to a given model is usually done in one of two standard ways.
- the first approach isJ nown as Forward-Backward algorithm, and uses an efficient recursion to compute the match probability as the sum of the probabilities of all possible alignments of the input sequence and the model states permitted by the model topology.
- An alternative, called the Viterbi algorithm approximates t summed match probability by finding the single sequence of m states with the maximum probability.
- the Viterbi algorithm be viewed as simultaneously performing an alignment of the of the input utterance and the model and computing the probability of that alignment.
- HMMs can be created to model entire words, or alternatively, a variety of subword linguistic units, such as phonemes or syllables.
- Phone-level HMMs have the advantage that a relatively compact set of models can be used to build arbitrary new words given that their phonetic transcription is known. More sophisticated versions reflect the fact that contextual effects can cause large variations in the way different phones are realized. Such models are known as allophonic or context-dependent. A common approach is to initiate the search with relatively inexpensive context- independent models and re-evaluate a small number of promising candidates with context-dependent phonetic models.
- the pdfs take on the form of vectors of probabilities, where each component represents the probability-of observing a particular prototype vector given a particular HMM state.
- One of the advantages of this approach is that it makes no assumptions about the nature of such pdfs, but this is offset by the information loss incurred in the quantization stage.
- continuous pdfs eliminates the quantization step, and the probability vectors are replaced by parametric functions which specify the probability of any arbitrary input spectral vector given a state.
- the most common class of functions used for this purpose is the mixture of Gaussians, where arbitrary pdfs are modeled by a weighted sum of Normal distributions.
- One drawback of using continuous pdfs is that, unlike in the case of the discrete pdf, the designer must make explicit assumptions about the nature of the pdf being modeled — something which can be quite difficult since the true distribution form for the speech signal is not known.
- continuous pdf models are computationally far more expensive than discrete pdf models, since following vector quantization the computation of a discrete probability involves no more than a single table lookup.
- the probability values in the discrete pdf case and the parameter values of the continuous pdf are most commonly trained using the Maximum Likelihood method. In this manner, the model parameters are adjusted so that the likelihood of observing the training data given the model is maximized.
- this approach does not necessarily lead to the best recognition performance and this realization has led to the development of new training criteria, known as discriminative, the objective of which is to adjust model parameters so as to minimize the number of recognition errors rather than fit the distributions to the data.
- discriminative training has been applied most successfully to small-vocabulary tasks.
- it presents a number of new problems, such as how to appropriately smooth the discriminatively-trained pdfs and how to adapt these systems to a new user with a relatively small amount of training data.
- a recognition system should use high- resolution models which are computationally expensive (e.g., context-dependent, discriminatively-trained continuous density models).
- high- resolution models which are computationally expensive (e.g., context-dependent, discriminatively-trained continuous density models).
- speedup techniques are usually used.
- the vocabulary search is performed in multiple stages or passes, where each successive pass makes use of increasingly detailed and expensive models, applied to increasingly small lists of candidate models.
- context independent, discrete models can be used first, followed by context-dependent continuous density models.
- a separate simultaneous alignment and pdf evaluation is essentially carried out for each set.
- the present invention represents a novel approach to the efficient use of high- resolution models in large vocabulary recognition.
- the proposed method benefits from the use of a continuous density model and a discriminative training criterion which leads to a high recognition performance on a large vocabulary task at the cost of only a marginal increase of computation over a simple discrete pdf system.
- Another novel feature of the new approach is its ability to make use of limited quantities of new data for rapid adaptation to a particular speaker.
- the probability that an input utterance corresponds to a given HMM can be computed by the Viterbi algorithm, which finds the sequence of model states which maximizes this probability. This optimization can be viewed as a
- the alignment paths obtained with relatively computationally inexpensive discrete pdf models can be of comparable quality to those obtained with computationally costly continuous density pdf models, even though the match probabilities or metrics generated by the discrete pdf alignment do not lead to sufficiently high accuracy for large vocabulary recognition.
- a decoupling of the alignment and final probability computation tasks A discrete-pdf system is used to establish alignment paths of an input utterance and a reference model, while the final probability metric is obtained by post-processing frame-state pairs with more powerful, discriminatively trained continuous-density pdfs, but using the same alignment path.
- the state models in the present system are thus associated with both a discrete (low-resolution) pdf and a discriminatively trained, continuous-density (high-resolution) pdf.
- the high-resolution pdfs are trained using alignments of models and speech data obtained using the low-resolution pdfs, and thus the discriminative training incorporates knowledge of the characteristics of the discrete pdf system.
- each input utterance is converted to a sequence of raw or unquantized vectors. For each raw
- Each word model is represented by a sequence of states, the states being selected from a preselected group of states. However, for each word model state, there is provided both a discrete probability distribution function (pdf) and a continuous pdf characterized by preselected adjustable parameters.
- PDF discrete probability distribution function
- a stored table is provided which contains distance metric values for each combination of a quantized input vector with model state as characterized by the discrete pdfs.
- Word models are aligned with an input utterance using the respective discrete PDFs and initial match scores are generated using the stored table. From well matching word models identified from the initial match scores, a ranked scoring of those models is generated using the respective continuous pdfs and the raw vector information. After each utterance, the preselected parameters are adjusted to increase, by a small proportion, the difference in scoring between the top and next ranking models.
- a re-adjustment of the continuous pdf parameters is accomplished by performing, on the current state of the parameters, an adjustment opposite to that performed with the original recognition event and performing on the then current state of the parameters an adjustment equal to that which would have been performed if the newly identified different word model had been the best scoring.
- Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a speech recognition system in accordance with the present invention
- Fig. 2 illustrates vocabulary word models used in the speech recognition system of the present invention
- Fig. 3 illustrates a recursion procedure used in the speech recognition system of the present invention
- Fig. 4 illustrates a training data structure set used in training word models
- Fig. 5 is a flow chart illustrating initial, batch training of word models
- Fig. 6 is a flow chart illustrating on-line adaptive training of word models.
- the present invention is particularly concerned with the provision of discriminatively trained multi-resolution vocabulary models which increase accuracy and reduce computational load in an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system.
- ASR automatic speech recognition
- the computer system illustrated there is of the type generally referred to as a personal computer.
- the computer runs under the MS DOS or WINDOWS® operating system and is organized around a system bus, designated generally by reference character 11.
- the system bus may be of the so called EISA type (Extended Industry Standards Association).
- the computer system utilizes a microprocessor, designated by reference character 13, which may, for
- the system is also provided with an appropriate amount of local or random access memory, e.g., 32 megabytes, designated by reference character 15. Additional storage capacity is provided by a hard disk 17 and floppy diskette drive 19 which operate in conjunction with a controller 23 which couples them to the system bus.
- a digital signal processor is provided as indicated by reference character 16, typically this processor being configured as an add-in circuit card coupled to the system bus 11.
- the digital signal processor takes in analog signals from a microphone, designated by reference character 18, converts those signals to digital form and processes them e.g., by performing a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), to obtain a series of spectral frames or vectors which digitally characterize the speech input at successive points in time.
- FFT Fast Fourier Transform
- these input vectors are referred to as the raw input vectors.
- acoustic vectors (X u ) are generated at a rate of one every 10 ms, and have
- the raw vectors are subjected to a gender-normalizing linear
- the transformed acoustic frames are vector quantized with a codebook of
- VQ vector quantizer
- Reference vocabulary models are composed of sequences of states
- Yj (y l ,—,y l m ,--,y lMi ), where . is the length of a model and i is the model index.
- Each model state y 1>m is a pointer into a common set of R DTMR states
- VQLP is essentially a table of precomputed log-probabilities and thus the evaluation of the discrete-pdf models consists of a very fast table lookup.
- the second pool of pdfs is made up of continuous distributions which give the probability of observing a specific spectrum Xt given a particular state s ⁇ referenced by y ija , i.e., Pr(X t ly i n )
- CDLP(X t ly im ) -log(Pr(X t ly i4n )).
- the continuous pdfs are parametric models and thus the probabilities cannot be precomputed. Rather than storing pre-computed probabilities as is the case for the discrete pdfs, we store the pdf parameters themselves and use them to compute the log-probabilities for specific input frames. Note that individual palls in each set may be shared by acoustically similar states in different models.
- Fig. 2 illustrates the relationship between model states and the two sets of log-pdfs. The vector-quantized input utterances V are matched against reference
- the algorithm evaluates -log(Pr(VIY j )), the negative logarithm of the probability of observing the input sequence given the model by finding the best alignment path between the input utterance and the model
- the original acoustic vector at a particular path point p can thus be identified as
- Gaussian Mixtures Experimental evidence revealed that with the use of discriminative training there was no advantage to using the full mixture models over the simplified version. In addition, reducing the number of free parameters in the model significantly improves their trainability with limited quantities of data.
- the standard Gaussian Mixture log-probability density function GMLP is defined as follows:
- GMLP (x(t),s r ) -log( ⁇ a(s r ,k)N(x(ty, ⁇ (s r ,ky, ⁇ (s r ,k))) (3) k
- a(s r ,k) is the weight of mixture component k in state s r and N(x; ⁇ ; ⁇ ) denotes the probability of observing x(t) given a multivariate Gaussian with mean ⁇
- N(s r ) is the number of mixture components.
- CDLP is not a true log-probability, and thus is not interchangeable with the discrete log-probabilities VQLP. This incompatibility is not an issue, however,
- the rescored models are then re-sorted according to their new scores.
- the first step in the training of the continuous density pdfs is the
- the total number of mean vectors can be set to reflect the variance of
- the next step consists of the discriminative training of the mean vectors.
- modified parameters is computed and the parameters are adjusted further.
- a training database is preprocessed by obtaining for each training
- Each candidate list contains
- Each list is sorted by the score D ; , and an augmented alignment path
- b is used to store the index of the best mean vector at a particular path point.
- FIG. 4 illustrates the training structure set for an input utterance.
- the sizes of the sets C and I can be controlled to determine how many correct
- Values greater than 0.5 represent recognition errors while values less than 0.5
- the parameter ⁇ controls the amount of influence
- the score D, between the training utterance and the target model / is
- ⁇ (s,k,l) ⁇ (s,k,l) + ⁇ (s,k,l) (15) where w is a weight which determines the magnitude of the change to the
- candidate models are selected using the discrete density pdfs as
- step 101 Again using the discrete pdfs, the input utterances aligned
- the scores are sorted as indicated at block 105
- the models are then re-sorted based on the scores obtained with the continuous density pdfs.
- the gradient is not accumulated but is applied
- ⁇ (s,k,l) ⁇ (s,k,l) u _ l + ⁇ ⁇ M ⁇ (_s,A:,/) u _ 1 (16)
- the notation ⁇ u means that the utterance u is used to compute the gradient
- the weighting used in the on-line adaptation ⁇ ' is set much smaller than
- the candidate alignment paths are regenerated and the utterance gradient
- the delayed correction algorithm is as follows:
- the candidate list and alignment paths are stored as indicated at block 159. If the user does not make a correction, the
- utterance path is incremented, as indicated at block 163, and, if there are no
- the procedure returns to the initial point to await a new utterance.
- This information can either be
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