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Learning the hidden structure of speech.

J L Elman1, D Zipser

  • 1Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
|April 1, 1988
PubMed
Summary

Backpropagation neural networks can learn to analyze and recognize speech, achieving up to 95% accuracy in labeling sounds. These networks develop internal representations for speech analysis and pattern recognition without needing external labels.

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Area of Science:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Speech Processing

Background:

  • Backpropagation neural networks are a powerful machine learning technique for learning functional relationships from input/output pattern pairs.
  • Speech analysis and recognition are complex tasks that traditionally require extensive feature engineering and labeled data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the application of backpropagation neural networks for speech analysis and recognition.
  • To assess the networks' ability to learn from labeled and unlabeled speech data.
  • To explore the feature representations developed by these networks.

Main Methods:

  • Computer simulations were conducted using backpropagation neural networks.
  • Networks were trained on presegmented speech tokens for labeling tasks.
  • Networks were trained on segmented and unsegmented continuous speech, with and without external labels.

Main Results:

  • Networks achieved up to 95% accuracy in labeling presegmented speech tokens.
  • Networks successfully recognized and delineated sounds in continuous speech without external labels.
  • Developed internal representations included traditional phonetic features and novel sound distinctions.

Conclusions:

  • Backpropagation learning is effective for analyzing and recognizing complex, natural speech data.
  • The networks can identify feature structures crucial for speech analysis and pattern recognition.
  • This approach shows promise for unsupervised speech segmentation and label learning.

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