ARMA lattice modeling for isolated word speech recognition

In this paper, we introduce an auto-regressive moving average (ARMA) lattice model for speech modeling. The speech characteristics are modeled and expressed in the form of lattice reflection coefficients for classification. Self Organization Map (SOM) is used to build codebooks for classification and recognition of the lattice reflection coefficients. Experimental results based on an isolated word speech database of 10 words/names indicate that the ARMA lattice model achieves superior recognition performance as compared to those of the conventional auto-regressive (AR) model.