kaldi increasing GMM components in the training procedure

This (continuous Gaussian distribution) allows simple single Gaussian distributions to be used for an initial untied model set where the training data is very patchy. Then once tying has been performed such that every state has an adequate amount of data, more complex mixture Gaussian distributions can be estimated to give increased accuracy.

Reference

• Young, Steve J., Julian J. Odell, and Philip C. Woodland. “Tree-based state tying for high accuracy acoustic modelling.” Proceedings of the workshop on Human Language Technology. Association for Computational Linguistics, 1994.