Recurrent neural networks as neuro-computational models of human speech recognition.

ABSTRACT: Human speech recognition transforms a continuous acoustic signal into categorical linguistic units, by aggregating information that is distributed in time. It has been suggested that this kind of information processing may be understood through the computations of a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) that receives input frame by frame, linearly in time, but builds an incremental representation of this input through a continually evolving internal state. While RNNs can simulate several key behavioral observations about human speech and language processing, it is unknown whether RNNs also develop computational dynamics that resemble human neural speech processing. Here we show that the internal dynamics of long short-term memory (LSTM) RNNs, trained to recognize speech from auditory spectrograms

SUBMITTER: Brodbeck C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12331064 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature