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…speech recognition but also in handwritten text recognition from images or sequences of pen strokes where we cannot localize the individual characters.
There’s some math, but the basic gist of the forward backward algorithm is you’re calculating “p(l|x)” with some helper functions “α(t)” and “β(t)”. Going forward, you calculate a parameter “α(t)”. Going backwards you calculate “β(t)”, and the prob…