Recurrent neural networks for phoneme recognition

Abstract

This paper deals with recurrent neural networks of multilayer perceptron type which are well-suited for speech recognition, specially for phoneme recognition. The ability of these networks has been investigated by phoneme recognition experiments using a number of Japanese words uttered by a native male speaker in a quiet environment. Results of the experiments show that recognition rates achieved with these networks are higher than those obtained with conventional non-recurrent neural networks.