Research in Continuous Speech Recognition

Abstract

This final report describes the results of a three-year project in an ongoing basic research effort to develop techniques for the automatic recognition of speech sounds (phonemes) in unrestricted continuous speech. A basic working phonetic recognition system has been designed, implemented on a VAX 11/780, and tested. At over 75% phonetic accuracy, the results have already exceeded previously-published phonetic recognition results on continuous speech for a single speaker. Our future goal will be to increase the recognition accuracy to over 80% for many speakers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA150474

Entities

People

  • J. Makhoul
  • M. Krasner
  • O. Kimball
  • Robert E. Schwartz
  • Y. L. Chow

Organizations

  • BBN Technologies

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Algorithms
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Automatic
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Databases
  • Dynamic Programming
  • Frequency
  • Hidden Markov Models
  • Markov Chains
  • Markov Models
  • Military Research
  • Power Spectra
  • Probability
  • Recognition
  • Training

Readers

  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML