EUROSPEECH '95 Fourth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology Madrid, Spain September 18-21, 1995

A Robust Discrimination Method Based on Selectively Trained Neural Networks for Confusable Words in Noisy Conditions

Yolande Anglade

LLI - IRISA, IUT Lannion, Lannion, France

This work aims at improving the automatic speech recognition of confusable words like letters. To deal with that problem, we have proposed a new discrimination method based on acoustic knowledge and artificial neural networks. In this paper, we present a validation of this method for speaker-independent tests, on a big database, with several additive noises at different Signal to Noise Ratio. The influence of the training conditions is taken into account and the results obtained show a good robustness of this method.

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Bibliographic reference.  Anglade, Yolande (1995): "A robust discrimination method based on selectively trained neural networks for confusable words in noisy conditions", In EUROSPEECH-1995, 2179-2182.