Large Vocabulary Continuous Mandarin Speech Recognition Using Weighted Finite-State Transducer

• Main Authors: Hsu, Yu-Chao, 許昱超
• Other Authors: Chen, Sin-Horng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55880410912229987343

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 電信工程研究所 === 100 === This thesis presents an ASR system based on Weighted Finite-State Transducer(WFST). In the first we will introduce some algorithms that used to construct WFST graph, and how we express different models using WFST format. Then, we described a hierarchical language model training by NER labels to deal with the problem of chinese person name, which often detected as OOV words. We incorporating the hierachical langugage model into one-stage and two-stage ASR system. In the one-stage ASR system, an on-the-fly replace algoritm was implemented to reduce the memory’s allocation, so we can use a complex hierachical model to calculate the probability of chinese person name. We evaluate our approach on the TCC-300 corpus, which consists of long paragraphic utterances, obtained a 0.38% absolute improvement in word error rate in one-stage ASR system; and at most 2.91% when using two-stage ASR system.