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Quick lm, vocab, adaptation questions

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2012-08-07
2012-09-22
  • Richard Kappler

    Richard Kappler - 2012-08-07
    1. I get that if I have a closed vocabulary life gets a little easier and I seem to recall reading somewhere that with a small, closed vocab I can get accuracy pretty close to 100%. What if I want to add to the vocabulary later, would I start again from scratch, appending the existing vocab and then doing the adaptation on the original hub4_wsj, discarding the adapted model?

    2. If I do build a "closed" vocab, as I understand it I would put the vocab in a vocab list and run it through lmmtool, then just do the acoustical adaptation, is that correct?

    3. When building such a "closed" vocabulary, as I understand it using the words in reasonable sentences is important because the recogniser is trained to look at the beginning and end of the word and surrounding word, not just the word itself, is that right? Would this include single word commands?

    4. Once built and adapted, how much should I expect WER to degrade when other people interact with the program (different voices)?

    regards, Richard

     
  • Nickolay V. Shmyrev

    1. I get that if I have a closed vocabulary life gets a little easier and I
      seem to recall reading somewhere that with a small, closed vocab I can get
      accuracy pretty close to 100%. What if I want to add to the vocabulary later,
      would I start again from scratch, appending the existing vocab and then doing
      the adaptation on the original hub4_wsj, discarding the adapted model?

    If the words have significantly different senones the new adaptation might be
    required

    1. If I do build a "closed" vocab, as I understand it I would put the vocab
      in a vocab list and run it through lmmtool, then just do the acoustical
      adaptation, is that correct?

    I'm not sure what do you mean by "closed". For a small vocabulary recognizer
    without any specific word order it's better to use JSGF grammars

    1. When building such a "closed" vocabulary, as I understand it using the
      words in reasonable sentences is important because the recogniser is trained
      to look at the beginning and end of the word and surrounding word, not just
      the word itself, is that right? Would this include single word commands?

    For single word commands you can use single word commands for adaptation

    1. Once built and adapted, how much should I expect WER to degrade when
      other people interact with the program (different voices)?

    It depends on many external factors

     

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