Hidden Markov Model for Mandarin Lexical Tone Recognition

IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1988, Pages 988-992

  Yang, Wu Ji ^a   Lee, Jyh Chyang ^b   Chang, Yueh Chin ^a   Wang, Hsiao Chuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Military service ^*  (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING - MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; LEXICAL TONE RECOGNITION; MANDARIN SPEECH;

SPEECH;

EID: 0024053854     PISSN: 00963518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/29.1620     Document Type: Article

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