Comparative performance analysis of statistical trajectory models in cellular environment

Two systems (Statistical Trajectory Models (STM) and continuous density HMMs) utilizing three preprocessing methodologies (MFCC, RASTA and FBDYN) were evaluated on two databases, namely CTIMIT and the corresponding downsampled TIMIT. Within the bounds of the experimental setup the comparative performance analysis showed that the STM significantly outperforms the HMM system on the CTIMIT database. Specifically, the performance of the STM system was found to be at least 10% better as compared to the one obtained by HMM when the RASTA preprocessing was used. The performance of both systems with FBDYN parametrization was found to be inferior to those using MFCC and RASTA. On the other hand, in low-noise conditions on the TIMIT database FBDYN yielded an improved performance for the HMM system, whereas STM achieved the best results with the MFCC parametrization.