Dynamic HMM selection for continuous speech recognition

In this paper we propose a dynamic model selection technique based on hidden model sequences (HMS). HMS modelling assumes, that not only the actual state sequence is unknown, but also the model sequence given a particular sentence. This allows more than one model to be used for a particular phone in a certain context. The most appropriate model is determined locally rather than a priori globally by the acoustic probability of that model together with a probability that this model is produced in a particular phone (or model) context. Experiments on the Resource Management corpus show signi cant improvements in word error rate over phonetically model{ and state{tied triphone hidden Markov models (HMMs). Initial results on the Switchboard corpus also show improvements on a much more di cult task.