000002479 001__ 2479 000002479 005__ 20250430135253.0 000002479 0247_ $$2DOI$$a10.6083/M43F4MX9 000002479 037__ $$aETD 000002479 245__ $$aToward more effective acoustic model clustering by more efficient use of data in speech recognition 000002479 260__ $$bOregon Health and Sciences University 000002479 269__ $$a2002-06-01 000002479 336__ $$aDissertation 000002479 502__ $$bPh.D. 000002479 520__ $$aIn current large vocabulary continuous speech recognition systems, multivariate Gaussian mixture distributions and context-dependent phones, typically triphones, are used to achieve high accuracy acoustic models. It is crucial to address the problem of how to estimate an extremely large number of model parameters from a limited amount of training data. The traditional approach uses phonetic decision tree based context clustering for reducing free parameters. However, this approach has several problems that might cause system performance degradation. All of these problems are due to the fact that the traditional approach does not efficiently use the limited training data and therefore fails to obtain effective acoustic models. 000002479 542__ $$fIn copyright - single owner 000002479 650__ $$aPhonetics$$024006 000002479 650__ $$aSpeech Recognition Software$$036177 000002479 691__ $$aOGI School of Science and Engineering$$041365 000002479 692__ $$aOGI Department of Computer Science and Engineering$$041405 000002479 7001_ $$aLiu, Chaojun$$uOregon Health and Science University$$041354 000002479 7201_ $$aYan, Yonghong$$uOregon Health and Science University$$041354$$7Personal$$eAdvisor 000002479 8564_ $$9785d980c-09f3-4192-9242-c3cd8ba72054$$s3970292$$uhttps://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/2479/files/3220_etd.pdf$$ePublic$$24b5ac5b066b1be15ef522d94e3f66457$$31 000002479 905__ $$a/rest/prod/v4/05/s9/62/v405s962n 000002479 909CO $$ooai:digitalcollections.ohsu.edu:2479$$pstudent-work 000002479 980__ $$aTheses and Dissertations