I have character (letter) models based on discrete HMM, now I want to use these models for making word model. How do I concatenate letter model & build word models?
Some years ago, i use a letter model based on HMM in context of bankcheck amount recognition. It was a left to right topology composed of 3 states for each letter. Word model was then the concatenation of letter models. Each letter could be coded from 1 to 5 graphems (i.e. phonem in speech recognition)
the main difficulties were to compare results of Viterbi algorithm for models without the same length ...