Python Deep Learning - Second Edition
by Ivan Vasilev, Daniel Slater, Gianmario Spacagna, Peter Roelants, Valentino Zocca
Acoustic model
In speech recognition, we want to output the words being spoken as text. We can do this by learning a time-dependent model that takes in a sequence of audio features, as described in the previous section, and outputs a sequential distribution of possible words being spoken. This model is called the acoustic model.
The acoustic model tries to model the likelihood that a sequence of audio features was generated by a sequence of words or phonemes: P (audio features | words) = P (audio features | phonemes) * P (phonemes | words).
A typical speech recognition acoustic model, before deep learning became popular, would use hidden Markov models (HMMs) to model the temporal variability of speech signals (http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~mjfg/mjfg_NOW.pdf ...
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