BASELINE SYLLABLE SYSTEM

WS96 syllabified lexicon used to get syllable definitions

9023 syllables required to cover words in the training data

Syllable durations obtained from triphone based forced alignment

Number of states in syllable model chosen to account for 2 frames of input data per state

All syllables trained upto 8 gaussians/state

Testing - 800 most frequent syllables chosen, which cover 90% of the training data.

Monophones used to fill up the test lexicon

Performance - 55.1% WER