Difference between phonepen and WIP

[Pranav Jawale]

Hello,

What is the difference between phonepen and WIP param in sphinx3? WIP as I
understand is the cost associated with interword transition. But what is
phonepen?

I observe that it affects the recognition result even in the FSG mode

Thanks.

[Nickolay V. Shmyrev]

But what is phonepen?

Phone penalty score is added for every transition between phones, for example
between phones inside words.

[Pranav Jawale]

Thanks.

If I increase phonepen beyond 1, would it mean that a word would exit earlier
than it would by default, since now the log(phonepen) is +ve and word_score
would be more than what it would have been earlier?

[Nickolay V. Shmyrev]

If I increase phonepen beyond 1, would it mean that a word would exit
earlier than it would by default, since now the log(phonepen) is +ve and
word_score would be more than what it would have been earlier?

Yes