HTK (software)
Encyclopedia
HTK is software toolkit for handling HMM
s. It is mainly intended for speech recognition
, but has been used in many other pattern recognition
applications that employ HMMs.
Hidden Markov model
A hidden Markov model is a statistical Markov model in which the system being modeled is assumed to be a Markov process with unobserved states. An HMM can be considered as the simplest dynamic Bayesian network. The mathematics behind the HMM was developed by L. E...
s. It is mainly intended for speech recognition
Speech recognition
Speech recognition converts spoken words to text. The term "voice recognition" is sometimes used to refer to recognition systems that must be trained to a particular speaker—as is the case for most desktop recognition software...
, but has been used in many other pattern recognition
Pattern recognition
In machine learning, pattern recognition is the assignment of some sort of output value to a given input value , according to some specific algorithm. An example of pattern recognition is classification, which attempts to assign each input value to one of a given set of classes...
applications that employ HMMs.
External links
- HTK Toolkit
- optimizing HTK features using the TIMITTIMITTIMIT is a corpus of phonemically and lexically transcribed speech of American English speakers of different sexes and dialects. Each transcribed element has been delineated in time....
speech corpus (source code)