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This paper presents a new methodology, based on the classical decision trees, to get a suitable set of context dependent sublexical units for Basque Continuous Speech Recognition (CSR). The original method proposed by Bahl [1] was applied as the benchmark. Then two new features were added: a data massaging to emphasise the data and a fast and efficient Growing and Pruning algorithm for DT construction. In addition, the use of the new context dependent units to build word models was addressed. The benchmark Bahl approach gave recognition rates clearly outperforming those of context independent phone-like units. Finally the new methodology improves over the benchmark DT approach.
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de Ipiña, K.L., Graña, M., Ezeiza, N., Hernández, M., Zulueta, E., Ezeiza, A. (2003). Decision Tree-Based Context Dependent Sublexical Units for Continuous Speech Recognition of Basque. In: Sanfeliu, A., Ruiz-Shulcloper, J. (eds) Progress in Pattern Recognition, Speech and Image Analysis. CIARP 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2905. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24586-5_31
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