BravoBrava
Mississippi State University
What have we learned?
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supervised training is a good
machine learning technique
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large databases are essential for
the development of robust statistics
What are the challenges?
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discrimination vs. representation
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generalization vs. memorization
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pronunciation modeling
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human-centered language modeling
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What are the algorithmic issues for the next decade:
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Better features by extracting articulatory information?
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Bayesian statistics? Bayesian networks?
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Decision Trees? Information-theoretic measures?
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Nonlinear dynamics? Chaos?
Technology
Future Directions
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Hidden Markov Models
Analog Filter Banks
Dynamic Time- Warping
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