Continuous speech recognition based on convolutional neural network

Abstract

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which showed success in achieving translation invariance for many image processing tasks, are investigated for continuous speech recognitions in the paper. Compared to Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), which have been proven to be successful in many speech recognition tasks nowadays, CNNs can reduce the NN model sizes significantly, and at the same time achieve even better recognition accuracies. Experiments on standard speech corpus TIMIT showed that CNNs outperformed DNNs in the term of the accuracy when CNNs had even smaller model size.