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INTERSPEECH 2009
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In this paper, we propose a word confidence measure based on phone durations depending on large contexts. The measure is based on the expected duration of each recognized phone in a word. In the approach here proposed the duration of each phone is in principle context-dependent, and the measure is a function of the distance between the observed and expected phone duration distributions within a word. Our experiments show that, since the “duration confidence” does not make use of any acoustic information, its Equal Error Rate (EER) in terms of False Accept and False Rejection rates is not as good as the one obtained by using the more informed acoustic confidence measure. However, combining the two measures by a simple linear interpolation, the system EER improves by 6% to 10% relative on an isolated word recognition task in several languages.
Bibliographic reference. Scanzio, Stefano / Laface, Pietro / Colibro, Daniele / Gemello, Roberto (2009): "Word confidence using duration models", In INTERSPEECH-2009, 1207-1210.