Time-inhomogeneous hidden Bernoulli model

Time-inhomogeneous hidden Bernoulli model (TI-HBM) is an alternative to hidden Markov model

(HMM) for automatic speech recognition. Contrary to HMM, the state transition process in TI-HBM is not
a Markov-dependent process, rather it is a generalized Bernoulli (an independent) process. This difference
leads to elimination of dynamic programming at state-level in TI-HBM decoding process. Thus, the
computational complexity of TI-HBM for probability evaluation and state estimation is (instead of
in the HMM case, where and are number of states and observation sequence length
respectively). The TI-HBM is able to model acoustic-unit duration (e.g. phone/word duration) by using a
built-in parameter named survival probability. The TI-HBM is simpler and faster than HMM in a phoneme
recognition task, but its performance is comparable to HMM.

For details, see [1] (https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sigpro.2008.09.004) or [2] (https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICA

SSP.2008.4518556).

References
Jahanshah Kabudian, M. Mehdi Homayounpour, S. Mohammad Ahadi, "Bernoulli versus
Markov: Investigation of state transition regime in switching-state acoustic models," Signal
Processing, vol. 89, no. 4, pp. 662–668, April 2009.
Jahanshah Kabudian, M. Mehdi Homayounpour, S. Mohammad Ahadi, "Time-
inhomogeneous hidden Bernoulli model: An alternative to hidden Markov model for
automatic speech recognition," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 4101–4104, Las Vegas, Nevada,
USA, March 2008.

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