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Python Deep Learning

By : Valentino Zocca, Gianmario Spacagna, Daniel Slater, Peter Roelants
Book Image

Python Deep Learning

By: Valentino Zocca, Gianmario Spacagna, Daniel Slater, Peter Roelants

Overview of this book

With an increasing interest in AI around the world, deep learning has attracted a great deal of public attention. Every day, deep learning algorithms are used broadly across different industries. The book will give you all the practical information available on the subject, including the best practices, using real-world use cases. You will learn to recognize and extract information to increase predictive accuracy and optimize results. Starting with a quick recap of important machine learning concepts, the book will delve straight into deep learning principles using Sci-kit learn. Moving ahead, you will learn to use the latest open source libraries such as Theano, Keras, Google's TensorFlow, and H20. Use this guide to uncover the difficulties of pattern recognition, scaling data with greater accuracy and discussing deep learning algorithms and techniques. Whether you want to dive deeper into Deep Learning, or want to investigate how to get more out of this powerful technology, you’ll find everything inside.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Python Deep Learning
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Speech recognition


In the previous sections, we saw how RNNs can be used to learn patterns of many different time sequences. In this section, we will look at how these models can be used for the problem of recognizing and understanding speech. We will give a brief overview of the speech recognition pipeline and provide a high-level view of how we can use neural networks in each part of the pipeline. In order to know more about the methods discussed in this section, we would like you to refer to the references.

Speech recognition pipeline

Speech recognition tries to find a transcription of the most probable word sequence considering the acoustic observations provided; this is represented by the following:

transcription = argmax( P(words | audio features))

This probability function is typically modeled in different parts (note that the normalizing term P (audio features) is usually ignored):

P (words | audio features) = P (audio features | words) * P (words)

= P...