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Soft output Viterbi algorithm

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The Soft Output Viterbi Algorithm is a variant of the classical Viterbi Algorithm.

SOVA differs from the classical Viterbi algorithm in that it uses a modified path metric which account of a priori probabilities of the input symbols, and produces a soft output indicating the reliability of the decision.

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