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Neural network topologies and bottle neck features in speech recognition
Karafiát Martin, Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM)
Černocký Jan, prof. Dr. Ing. (DCGM)
neural networks, topologies, speech recognition, bottle-neck features
Different neural net topologies for estimating features for speech recognition were presented. We introduced bottle-neck structure into previously proposed Split Context. This was done mainly to reduce size of resulting neural net, which serves as feature estimator. When bottle-neck outputs are used also as final outputs from neural network instead of probability estimates, the reduction of word error rate is also reached.
This poster overviewthe newly proposed bottle-neck features and then examines the possibility of use of meural net structure with
bottle-neck in hierarchical neural net classifier such as Split
Context classifier.
First, the neural net with bottle-neck is used in place of merger to
see whether the advantage seeen for single neural net will hold also
for hierarchical classifier. Then we use the bottle-neck neural nets
in place of context classifiers, using bottle-neck outputs as input to
a merger classifier. Finally, bottle-neck neural nets are used in both
stages of Split Context classifier. This improved Split Context
structure gains several advantages: The use of bottle-neck imply
size reduction of resulting classifier. Also, processing of classifier
output is smaller compare to probabilistic features. The WER reduction was achieved too.
@misc{BUT63689,
author="František {Grézl} and Martin {Karafiát} and Jan {Černocký}",
title="Neural network topologies and bottle neck features in speech recognition",
year="2007",
pages="78--82",
address="Brno",
url="http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~grezl/publi/mlmi2007.pdf",
note="presentation, poster"
}