... is similar to words extraction in automatic speech recogni-tion (ASR)(Jurafsky and Martin, 2000, chp. 5,7).The states of the ASR model are phones, whereeach observation is a vector of spectral ... supervised training of a speech recognizer combines a training corpus of speech wave files, together with word-transcription, andlanguage model probabilities, in order to learn thephones model.There ... algorithm to our text rep-resentation for first-order HMM, which works inO(˙T ) time.4 Experimental ResultsWe ran a series of experiments on a Hebrew corpus to compare various approaches to the...