TY  - CONF
ID  - henn96:icslp
T1  - POST: Parallel Object-Oriented Speech Toolkit
A1  - Hennebert, Jean
A1  - Petrovska, Dijana
TI  - International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 96), Philadelphia, USA
Y1  - 1996
SP  - 1966
EP  - 1969
UR  - http://diuf.unifr.ch/people/henneber/cv/download/post_icslp_96.pdf
KW  - Benchmarking
KW  - Parallelism
KW  - Speech Recognition
N2  - We give a short overview of POST, a parallel speech toolkit that is distributed freeware to academic institutions. The underlying idea of POST is that large computational problems, like the ones involved in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), can be solved more cost effectively by using the aggregate power and memory of many computers. In its current version (January 96) and amongst other things, POST can perform simple feature extraction, training and testing of word and subword Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) with discrete and multigaussian statistical modelling. In this parer, the implementation of the parallelism is discussed and an evaluation of the performances on a telephone database is presented. A short introduction to Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM), the library through which the parallelism is achieved, is also given.
ER  -