Experiments for isolated-word recognition with single- and two-layer perceptrons |
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Authors: | Bernhard R Kmmerer Wolfgang A Küpper |
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Institution: | Siemens AG München, Germany |
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Abstract: | Several design strategies for feed-forward networks are examined within the scope of pattern classification. Single- and two-layer perceptron models are adapted for experiments in isolated-word recognition. Direct (one-step) classification as well as several hierarchical (two-step) schemes have been considered. For a vocabulary of 20 English words spoken repeatedly by 11 speakers, the word classes are found to be separable by hyperplanes in the chosen feature space. Since for speaker-dependent word recognition the underlying data base contains only a small training set, an automatic expansion of the training material improves the generalization properties of the networks. This method accounts for a wide variety of observable temporal structures for each word and gives a better overall estimate of the network parameters which leads to a recognition rate of 99.5%. For speaker-independent word recognition, a hierarchical structure with pairwise training of two-class models is superior to a single uniform network (98% average recognition rate). |
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Keywords: | Perceptron Multilayer perceptron Error-backpropagation Isolated-word recognition Expansion of training material Hierarchical classification Discrimination boundaries Generalization properties |
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