Adaptation of acoustic prototype vectors in a speech recognition system
 In a speech recognition system, the prior parameters of acoustic prototype vectors are adapted to a new speaker to obtain posterior parameters by having the speaker utter a set of adaptation words. The prior parameters of an acoustic prototype vector are adapted by a weighted sum of displacement vectors obtained from the adaptation utterances. Each displacement vector is associated with one segment of an uttered adaptation word. Each displacement vector represents the distance between the associated segment of the adaptation utterance and the model corresponding to that segment. Each displacement vector is weighted by the strength of the relationship of the acoustic prototype vector to the word segment model corresponding to the displacement vector. 
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