An Improved Model for Isolated Word Recognition

Although the goal of continuous speech recognition by machine remains far out of reach, the one area of speech recognition that is practical with today's technology and understanding is that of isolated word recognition.1"6 What is interesting about this area is that the general approach used to solve the isolated word-recognition problem (i.e., the statistical-pattern-recognition approach) bears little relationship to the way in which humans understand speech. As a result the vocabularies for which the isolated word recognizers can achieve good * Work performed while a consultant to Bell Laboratories.