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Automatic Speech Recognition

A Deep Learning Approach

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  • © 2015

Overview

  • Presents important theoretical foundation and practical considerations of using a wide range of deep learning models and methods for automatic speech recognition
  • Reviews past and present work (up to the fall of year 2014) on most impactful work based on deep learning for acoustic modeling in speech recognition
  • Goes deeply into rigorous mathematical and technical descriptions of deep learning methods successful for speech recognition and related areas of applications
  • Analyzes research directions and trends towards establishing future-generation speech recognition based on extending the current deep learning models
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Signals and Communication Technology (SCT)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Conventional Acoustic Models

  2. Deep Neural Networks

  3. Deep Neural Network-Hidden Markov Model Hybrid Systems for Automatic Speech Recognition

  4. Representation Learning in Deep Neural Networks

  5. Advanced Deep Models

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About this book

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the recent advancement in the field of automatic speech recognition with a focus on deep learning models including deep neural networks and many of their variants. This is the first automatic speech recognition book dedicated to the deep learning approach. In addition to the rigorous mathematical treatment of the subject, the book also presents insights and theoretical foundation of a series of highly successful deep learning models.

Reviews

“Deep Learning (DL) has demonstrated a phenomenal success in various AI applications. … This book by two leading experts in Deep Learning is certainly a welcome addition to the literature of the field, particularly in automatic speech recognition. … this book presents a very valuable vista of the state-of-art of Deep Learning, focusing on speech recognition applications.” (Robert Kozma, Mathematical Reviews, September, 2017)



“The book addresses real-world problems of current interest regarding automatic speech recognition. … This book is useful for all researchers working in automatic speech recognition as well as in real-world applications of deep learning.” (Ruxandra Stoean, zbMATH 1356.68004, 2017)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Microsoft Research, Bothell, USA

    Dong Yu

  • Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA

    Li Deng

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