Why do you ask?   My feeling is that it if it was a research topic you should be asking different questions and if you've been tasked to do this then you probably need help from someone with more experiance.

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Hi,

I am just curious about that, before I was using HEREST to perform HMM unsupervised training and it works pretty well and now I want just to test the disciminative training and see if there is a big difference.

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Well,  you've acomplished one big hurdle, that of unsupervised ML training - I'd be interested to how you did that.

The next thing to do is to follow the HTK book and see if you can get decent supervised dicriminative models (i.e. in line with the improvements others report).

Then put the two halves together and I hope it all works for you.   You may not get all the gains as (persumably) you've got much looser denominator lattices.   If you are looking for people who've done this before then the HTK users list is probably best.

Good luck,

Tony

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