Improving the performance of out-of-vocabulary word rejection by using support vector machines

Shilei Huang*, Xiang Xie, Jingming Kuang

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Abstract

Support Vector Machines (SVM) represents a new approach to pattern classification developed from the theory of structural risk minimization [1]. In this paper, we propose an approach to improve the performance of confidence measurements for out-of-vocabulary word rejection by using SVM. Confidence measures are computed from the information of n-best candidates and anti-word by a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based speech recognizer. The acceptance/rejection decision for a word is based on the confidence score which is provided by SVM classifier. And the decision is performed for each word in vocabulary separately. The performance of the proposed SVM classifier is compared with method based on posterior probability and anti-word probability. Experiments of Mandarin command recognition have showed that better performance can be obtained when using the proposed method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationINTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP
PublisherInternational Speech Communication Association
Pages1618-1621
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9781604234497
Publication statusPublished - 2006
EventINTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP - Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Duration: 17 Sept 200621 Sept 2006

Publication series

NameINTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP
Volume4

Conference

ConferenceINTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPittsburgh, PA
Period17/09/0621/09/06

Keywords

  • Confidence measure
  • Speech recognition
  • Support vector machines

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