EUROSPEECH 2003 - INTERSPEECH 2003 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology Geneva, Switzerland September 1-4, 2003

Nearest-Neighbor Search Algorithms Based on Subcodebook Selection and its Application to Speech Recognition

Jose A.R. Fonollosa

Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Vector quantization (VQ) is a efficient technique for data compression with a minimum distortion. VQ is widely used in applications as speech and image coding, speech recognition, and image retrieval. This paper presents a novel fast nearest-neighbor algorithm and shows its application to speech recognition. The proposed algorithm is based on a fast preselection that reduces the search to a limited number of code vectors. The presented results show that the computational cost of the VQ stage can be significantly reduced without affecting the performance of the speech recognizer.

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Bibliographic reference.  Fonollosa, Jose A.R. (2003): "Nearest-neighbor search algorithms based on subcodebook selection and its application to speech recognition", In EUROSPEECH-2003, 2493-2496.