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7th International Conference on Spoken Language ProcessingSeptember 16-20, 2002 |
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7th International Conference on Spoken Language ProcessingSeptember 16-20, 2002 |
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We present an improved method of compactly organizing the decoding network for a semi-dynamic network decoder. In the previous work [1], the network management units called subnetworks were made compact by self-structuring themselves. We improve this subnetwork representation in two aspects by employing the shared-tail topology [2]. Firstly, we localize the decoding algorithm so that it works with a set of subnetworks rather than with the whole decoding network. Secondly, we align unshared suffixes of pronunciations into a shared tail to reduce redundancies. Experimental results on a 20k-word Korean dictation task show that our algorithm significantly reduces the memory requirement and produces additional gains in word accuracy by using aligned shared tails.
Bibliographic reference. Ahn, Dong-Hoon / Chung, Minhwa (2002): "Compact subnetwork-based large vocabulary continuous speech recognition", In ICSLP-2002, 725-728.