Personalized Language Model for Improved Accuracy
Traditionally speech recognition systems are built with models that are an average of many different users. A speaker-independent model is provided that works reasonably well for a large percentage of users. But the accuracy can…
Multimodal Conversational User Interface
Researchers in the Speech Technology group at Microsoft are working to allow the computer to travel through our living spaces as a handy electronic HAL pal that answers questions, arrange our calendars, and send messages…
Language Modeling for Speech Recognition
Did I just say “It’s fun to recognize speech?” or “It’s fun to wreck a nice beach?” It’s hard to tell because they sound about the same. Of course, it’s a lot more likely that…
Acoustic Modeling
Acoustic modeling of speech typically refers to the process of establishing statistical representations for the feature vector sequences computed from the speech waveform. Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is one most common type of acoustuc models. Other acosutic models…