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  • Creating New Mixture Components

    We use the utility create_mixtures to increment mixtures starting from single mixture models. The command line used to create 2 mixture components per state is

    create_mixtures -input states.bin -output 2mix_states.text -num_mixtures 2

    Note that the input states file is a binary file and the output is an ASCII file. We need to follow this step by converting the output states file to binary format using the convert_mmf utility before we use hmm_train to train the models.

  • Mixture Training:

    Though the create_mixtures utility allows initialization of any number of mixtures, it has been found to be more effective to train mixtures incrementally. We first create two mixture components per state, train them and then build four mixture components per state, etc. This process can be continued until the required number of mixture components is trained. The number of reestimations to perform before incrementing mixtures is usually chosen to be four or more. This process is shown below.
    Mixture training



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