Quantization of cepstral parameters for speech recognition over theWorld Wide Web |
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Authors: | Digalakis V.V. Neumeyer L.G. Perakakis M. |
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Affiliation: | Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Tech. Univ., Heraklion; |
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Abstract: | We examine alternative architectures for a client-server model of speech-enabled applications over the World Wide Web (WWW). We compare a server-only processing model where the client encodes and transmits the speech signal to the server, to a model where the recognition front end runs locally at the client and encodes and transmits the cepstral coefficients to the recognition server over the Internet. We follow a novel encoding paradigm, trying to maximize recognition performance instead of perceptual reproduction, and we find that by transmitting the cepstral coefficients we can achieve significantly higher recognition performance at a fraction of the bit rate required when encoding the speech signal directly. We find that the required bit rate to achieve the recognition performance of high-quality unquantized speech is just 2000 bits per second |
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