INTERSPEECH 2009 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Brighton, United Kingdom September 6-10, 2009

CRANDEM: Conditional Random Fields for Word Recognition

Jeremy Morris, Eric Fosler-Lussier

Ohio State University, USA

To date, the use of Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) in automatic speech recognition has been limited to the tasks of phone classification and phone recognition. In this paper, we present a framework for using CRF models in a word recognition task that extends the well-known Tandem HMM framework to CRFs. We show results that compare favorably to a set of standard baselines, and discuss some of the benefits and potential pitfalls of this method.

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Bibliographic reference.  Morris, Jeremy / Fosler-Lussier, Eric (2009): "CRANDEM: conditional random fields for word recognition", In INTERSPEECH-2009, 3063-3066.