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Speech Recognition: acoustic model
•Question #1: What speech sounds did the speaker utter? P(signal|words)
–Human speech has 40-50 sounds called phones
–characterized by features in acoustic signal (e.g. frequency, amplitude, duration, etc.)
–application of machine learning