β Scribed by Izhak Shafran; Mari Ostendorf
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Current speech recognition systems perform poorly on conversational speech as compared to read speech, arguably due to the large acoustic variability inherent in conversational speech. Our hypothesis is that there are systematic effects in local context, associated with syllabic structure, that are not being captured in the current acoustic models. Such variation may be modeled using a broader definition of context than in traditional systems which restrict context to be the neighboring phonemes. In this paper, we study the use of word-and syllable-level context conditioning in recognizing conversational speech. We describe a method to extend standard tree-based clustering to incorporate a large number of features, and we report results on the Switchboard task which indicate that syllable structure outperforms pentaphones and incurs less computational cost. It has been hypothesized that previous work in using syllable models for recognition of English was limited because of ignoring the phenomenon of resyllabification (change of syllable structure at word boundaries), but our analysis shows that accounting for resyllabification does not impact recognition performance.
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