Systems and techniques disclosed herein include methods for de-quantization of feature vectors used in automatic speech recognition. A SIMD vector processor is used in one embodiment for efficient vectorized lookup of floating point values in conjunction with fMPE processing for increasing the discriminative power of input signals. These techniques exploit parallelism to effectively reduce the latency of speech recognition in a system operating in a high dimensional feature space. In one embodiment, a bytewise integer lookup operation effectively performs a floating point or a multiple byte lookup.