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From: sre@al.cam.ac.uk (Sean Eddy)
Subject: Re: What is a Markov model?
In-Reply-To: Edmund.Rybski@launchpad.unc.edu's message of 6 Oct 1993 05:13:02 GMT
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In article <28tk4u$cfh@samba.oit.unc.edu> Edmund.Rybski@launchpad.unc.edu (Paul Edmund Rybski) writes:
  >Hi, I've been doing a little delving into speech recognition materials and
  >have come across "Markov models" is a lot of things.  Unfortunately, 
  >most of these materials are of the degree of the IEEE transactions... and
  >are far from transparent.  Does anyone know of any faq or information site
  >or has any information that they can mail to me on Markov Models and how
  >they pertain to speech processing and signal processing?

I'd recommend L.R. Rabiner, "A tutorial on hidden Markov models and
selected applications in speech recognition", Proc IEEE 77:257-286,
1989. Very well done; even molecular biologists can read it :)

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- Sean Eddy
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