Speech recognition based on the subspace method: AI class-description leaning viewpoint.
Yoichi Takebayashi · Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan (E) · 1992
This paper describes the learning mechanism employed in a highly efficient user-adaptive speech recognizer based on the subspace method for large vocabulary Japanese test input.Comparing the subspace-based learning system with the well-known AI learning system ARCH, the following points are made:(1) Subspace learning using covariance matrix modification and KL-expansion is a kind of class-description learning from examples, as found in ARCH.The subspace learning method focusses on feature extraction, which results in a powerful representation of pattern characteristics for each pattern class, but does not involve only pattern classification, unlike conventional pattern recognition methods.(2)The concepts of "Near-Miss,""Require-Link" and "Forbid-Link" in ARCH can be simulated with the subspace method.Since the subspace method deals with patterns but not symbols, it does not need pattern-symbol conversion.In other words, the subspace learning method has a more versatile description capability than ARCH.(3)Minsky's concept of "Uniframe" is implemented in a speech recognizer based on the subspace method.The "Uniframe" obtained with KL-expansion is equivalent to a subspace which represents a meaning of a class.Minsky's "Accumula tion" and "Exceptional Principal" concepts have also been taken into account.