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Identifying the Flaws of Hand-Designed Speech Components
Question: Briefly state two specific ways that hand-engineered components, such as MFCCs and phonemes, limit the potential performance of a speech system.
Sample answer: Hand-engineered components limit performance by either throwing away information, as MFCCs do by simplifying the audio signal, or by forcing the algorithm to use an imperfect intermediate representation, such as mapping sounds to linguistically invented phonemes.
Key points:
- Throwing away information simplifies the input but loses data.
- Forcing imperfect intermediate representations creates artificial bottlenecks.
Rubric: Full credit for mentioning both the loss of information (simplification) and the forced use of an imperfect intermediate representation.
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