Using frame correlation algorithm in a duration distribution based hidden Markov model

The assumption of frame independence is a widely known weakness of traditional hidden Markov model (HMM). In this paper, a frame correlation algorithm based on the duration distribution based hidden Markov model (DDBHMM) is proposed. In the algorithm, an AR model is used to depict the low pass effect of vocal tract from which stems the inertia leading to frame correlation. In the preliminary experiment of middle vocabulary speaker dependent isolated word recognition, our frame correlation algorithm outperforms the frame independent one. The average error reduction is about 20% .