[HMM] The GCONST in HTK's HMM definition file

The GCONST value is a precomputed constant for the log likelihood of the Gaussian, i.e. the log of the denominator of the Gaussian formula:

 

The stored GCONST is:

where for the diagonal covariance matrix, the determinant is just the product of the diagonal elements.

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