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This paper contains a description
of the Philips/RWTH 1998 HUB4 system which has been build in a joint e_ort
of Philips Research Laboratories Aachen and Aachen University ofTechnology.
We will focus our discussion on recent improvements compared to the original
1997 HUB4 system and evaluate them on the HUB4'97 evaluation data. The
paper will deal with
1. a rough system overview
including feature extraction, acoustic training, audio stream segmentation,
and decoding
2. log-linear interpolation
of distance-language models,
3. and the integration of
various acoustic and language models via Discriminative Model Combination
(DMC).
The performance of the described
system is 23% (relative) better than the performance of the 1997 Philips
HUB4 system. A word error rate of 17.9% was achieved on the 1997 HUB4 evaluation
set, compared to 23.5% using the original 1997 system.
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Bibliographic reference. Beyerlein, Peter / Aubert, Xavier / Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold / Harris, Matthew / Klakow, Dietrich / Wendemuth, A. / Molau, Sirko / Pitz, Michael / Sixtus, A. (1999): "The philips/RWTH system for transcription of broadcast news", In EUROSPEECH'99, 647-650.