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PNCC Feature file - CMU Sphinx Support

Remus
2011-05-19
2012-09-22
  • Remus

    Remus - 2011-05-19

    Hello,

    I was wondering, does CMU plan to release a support for PNC files as it does
    for standard MFC files?

    I have produced an PNCC acoustic model for French and the results showed an
    improvement of about 12% WER against its MFCC counterpart. For that, I used
    the matlab script produced buy CMU, embedded into a perl application that
    allowed to automatize the pnc file creation.

    But the process is slow and only experimental.

    Thank you

     
  • Nickolay V. Shmyrev

    Hi Remus

    The C code that existed for PNCC was rather dirty so I wouldn't rely on it
    being released.

     
  • Remus

    Remus - 2011-05-19

    I understand. But still, after reading some papers and conducting this study
    (which involved more than 5000 audio files), it seems PNCC is promising.

    Hope a pncc "wave2feat" to be ultimately released :)

    Best regards,

     
  • Vassil Panayotov

    Hi,

    12% absolute WER reduction sounds quite impressive ...
    My understanding from looking at some papers is that they made the comparisons
    using 16KHz speech.
    Does anyone knows whether the relative advantages and robustness of PNCC are
    preserved with 8KHz telephone-grade speech?

     

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