Multiple pronunciation dictionary using HMM-state confusion characteristics

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 143-153

  Wakita, Yumi ^a,b   Singer, Harald ^a   Sagisaka, Yoshinori ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOSSARIES; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

MULTIPLE PRONUNCIATION DICTIONARY GENERATION METHOD;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033106613     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/csla.1998.0116     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. 2 tests. Journal of the International Biometric Society 10, 417-451.
2. Fukada, T. & Sagisaka, S. (1997). Automatic generation of a pronunciation dictionary based on pronunciation networks. Proceedings of European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, pp. 2471-2474.
3. Humphries, J., Woodland, P. & Pearce, D. (1996). Using accent-specific pronunciation modeling for robust speech recognition. Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pp. 2324-2327.
4. Imai, T., Ando, A. & Miyasaka, E. (1995). A new method for automatic generation of speaker-dependent phonological rules. Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 864-867.
5. Ito, A. & Makino, S. (1992). Word pre-selection using a redundant hash addressing method for continuous speech recognition. Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pp. 309-312.
6. Lee, K., Hayamizu, S., Hon, H., Huang, C., Swartz, J. & Weide, R. (1990). Allophone clustering for continuous speech recognition. Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 749-752.
7. Mori, T. & Yoshida, T. (1990). Data analysis technical book. Kitaouji-shobou, pp. 181-183.
8. Morimoto,T. (1994). A speech and language database for speech translation research. Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pp. 1791-1794.
9. Neumeyer, L., Franco, H., Weintraub, H. & Price, P. (1996). Automatic text-independent pronunciation scoring of foreign language student speech. Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pp. 1457-1461.
10. Ohkura, K., Sugiyama, M. & Sagayama, S. (1992). Speaker adaptation based on transfer vector field smoothing with continuous mixture density HMMs. Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pp. 369-372.
11. Ravishanker, M. & Eskenazi, M. (1997). Automatic generation of context-dependent pronunciations. Proceedings of European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, pp. 2467-2470.
12. Ringer, E. K. & Allen, J. F. (1996). Error correction via a post-processor for continuous speech recognition. Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 427-430.
13. Schwartz, R., Chow, Y., Kimball, O., Roucos, S., Krasner, M. & Makhoul, J. (1985). Context-dependent modeling for acoustic-phonetic recognition of continuous speech. Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 1205-1208.
14. Singer, H. & Takami, J. (1994). Speech recognition without grammar or vocabulary constraints. Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pp. 2207-2210.
15. Sloboda, T. (1995). Dictionary learning: performance through consistency. Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 453-456.
16. Takami, J. & Sagayama, S. (1992). A successive state splitting algorithm for efficient allophone modeling. Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 573-576.
17. Wakita, Y., Singer, H. & Sagisaka, Y. (1995). Phoneme candidate re-entry modeling using recognition error characteristics over multiple HMM states. Proceedings of ESCA Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System, pp. 73-76.
18. Wooters, C. & Stolcke, A. (1994). Multiple-pronunciation lexical modeling in a speaker independent speech understanding system. Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pp. 1363-1366.
19. Young, S., Odell, J. & Woodland, J. (1994). Tree-based state tying for high accuracy acoustic modelling. Proceedings of DARPA Workshop, pp. 286-291.