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Recognition of continuous speech requires top-down processing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2000

Kenneth N. Stevens
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 stevens@speech.mit.edu

Abstract

The proposition that feedback is never necessary in speech recognition is examined for utterances consisting of sequences of words. In running speech the features near word boundaries are often modified according to language-dependent rules. Application of these rules during word recognition requires top-down processing. Because isolated words are not usually modified by rules, their recognition could be achieved by bottom-up processing only.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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