creative64 - 2011-02-25

Hi,

What exactly does "bestpath" option do in pocketsphinx ?

I have a set of test utterances from 4 speakers (100 utterances for each
speaker) and running them with and without
bestpath. I find that when bestpath is disables, my overall WER is dropping
marginally whereas the execution time is
improving. This is happening for all four speakers. Is this on expected lines
(seems counterintuitive) ?

Notes: I'm running pocketsphinx 0.6.1
It is a command and control application with a vocabulary of around 200 words.
Grammar is fsg with 408 states.
Acoustic model is hub4wsj_sc_8k
No other defaults are changed

Thanks and regards