SPECOM 2014: Speech and Computer pp 360-367 | Cite as

Proportional-Integral-Derivative Control of Automatic Speech Recognition Speed

  • Alexander Zatvornitsky
  • Aleksei Romanenko
  • Maxim Korenevsky
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 8773)

Abstract

We propose a technique for regulating LVCSR decoding speed based on a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) model that is widely used in automatic control theory. Our experiments show that such a controller can maintain a given decoding speed level despite computer performance fluctuations, difficult acoustic conditions, or speech material that is out of the scope of the language model, without notable deterioration in overall recognition quality.

Keywords

Speech recognition decoding pruning recognition time control PID controller 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Alexander Zatvornitsky
    • 1
  • Aleksei Romanenko
    • 2
  • Maxim Korenevsky
    • 1
  1. 1.Speech Technology CenterSaint-PetersburgRussia
  2. 2.ITMO UniversitySaint-PetersburgRussia

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