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Chapter 2 Introduction to Neural network

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and that backpropagation minimizes the norm of<br />

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6.6 Application speech synthesis-NETtalk<br />

People in the field of linguistics have been working with rule based<br />

speech synthesis systems for many years.<br />

Speech synthesis is away of converting text <strong>to</strong> speech and a feedforward<br />

neural <strong>network</strong>, NETtalk, can be trained <strong>to</strong> solve this.<br />

Is uses a 7 character sliding window <strong>to</strong> read the text and it is trained<br />

with backpropagation <strong>to</strong> classify the phonemes of the text’s pronunciation<br />

(See figure 9.14).<br />

Phonemes<br />

26 output units<br />

80 hidden units<br />

u r a l _ N e<br />

7 groups of<br />

29 input sites<br />

Another application is the reverse problem of listening <strong>to</strong> speech<br />

and then convert <strong>to</strong> text. They use Hidden Markov Models trained<br />

with Backpropagation.<br />

6.7 Improvements <strong>to</strong> backpropagation<br />

There are many ways <strong>to</strong> improve the convergence of backpropagation.<br />

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