6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the transforming comprises: a. performing non-linear operations on the features; and b. generating lower dimensional features for speech recognition.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the transforming comprises: a. performing non-linear operations on the features; and b. generating lower dimensional features for speech recognition. 7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the transforming further comprises the generation of Linear Discriminant Analysis transforms, wherein the transforms are generated by optimizing the cost function with linear activation functions.