RESCORING RESULTS: WORD ERROR RATES

1241 Male Speaker Subset
System
Ref + 5-Best
5-Best
Ref + 100-Best
100-Best
Oracle
00.0
42.7
00.0
32.5
Chance
45.0
54.0
59.6
60.2
Baseline HMM (wrdi CD phones)
48.2
52.0
56.2
56.9
HMM #2 (xwrdi CD phones)
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
HMM #3 (syllables)
40.1
50.9
51.2
54.6
HMM Small (900 utts.)
44.8
52.6
56.1
58.9
R&B #1 (stand., 6 dims., 40 hid.)
32.7
52.6
51.7
59.4
R&B #2 (standard, no warping)
34.7
53.0
51.6
59.5
R&B #3 (standard, RB warping)
32.7
52.5
n/a
n/a
R&B #4 (c0, no mean, 100 weights)
35.7
52.7
n/a
n/a
VTR 1.1 (one target, low variance)
38.6
53.7
52.3
59.9
VTR 1.2 (one target, mid variance)
34.0
54.1
n/a
n/a
VTR 1.3 (one target, high variance)
33.9
54.0
n/a
n/a
VTR 2.1 (two targets, low variance)
38.4
53.5
n/a
n/a
VTR 2.2 (two targets, mid variance)
39.1
53.8
54.3
60.0


Notes: Chance experiments have approximately a 3% standard deviation