Balakrishnan Varadarajan
ABSTRACT
Accurate unsupervised learning of phonemes of a language directly from speech is demonstrated via an algorithm for joint unsupervised learning of the topology and parameters of a hidden Markov model (HMM); states and short state-sequences through this HMM correspond to the learnt sub-word units. The algorithm, originally proposed for unsupervised learning of allophonic variations within a given phoneme set, has been adapted to learn without any knowledge of the phonemes. An evaluation methodology is also proposed, whereby the state-sequence that aligns to a test utterance is transduced in an automatic manner to a phoneme-sequence and compared to its manual transcription. Over 85% phoneme recognition accuracy is demonstrated for speaker-dependent learning from fluent, large-vocabulary speech.
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Index Terms
- Unsupervised learning of acoustic sub-word units
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