A method is developed which includes 1) defining a switching state space model for a continuous valued hidden production-related parameter and the observed speech acoustics, and 2) approximating a posterior probability that provides the likelihood of a sequence of the hidden production-related parameters and a sequence of speech units based on a sequence of observed input values. In approximating the posterior probability, the boundaries of the speech units are not fixed but are optimally determined. Under one embodiment, a mixture of Gaussian approximation is used. In another embodiment, an HMM posterior approximation is used.

 
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