Useful Materials

Here are four lectures shared by Dan Povey
https://sites.google.com/site/dpovey/kaldi-lectures

Terms

[1] statistical model
a probability distribution that can adequately approximate the true distribution of observed data.

[2] sphere format
speech data are compressed using compression scheme called "shorten"

[3] n-gram model

[4]likelihood vs. probability

Discussion on the input data source.
[1] http://sourceforge.net/p/kaldi/mailman/kaldi-users/thread/5341091F.80806@cantabResearch.com/