.. _configuration_adapting:

Acoustic model adaptation options
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For the Kaldi recipe that monophone training is based on, see :kaldi_steps:`train_map`.


.. csv-table::
   :widths: 20, 20, 60
   :header: "Parameter", "Default value", "Notes"

   "mapping_tau", 20, "Smoothing constant used in MAP estimation, corresponds to the number of 'fake counts' that we add for the old model.  Larger tau corresponds to less aggressive re-estimation, and more smoothing.  You might also want to try 10 or 15."