Pitch tracking and tone features for Mandarin speech recognition

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2000, Pages 1523-1526

  Huang, Hank Chang Han ^a   Seide, Frank ^a  

^a Philips Innovation Center   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PROCESSING; ALGORITHMS; BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MARKOV PROCESSES;

CHARACTER ERROR RATES; CRITICAL COMPONENT; LARGE VOCABULARY CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; MANDARIN SPEECH RECOGNITION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE TESTS; PITCH TRACKING ALGORITHMS; REAL-TIME OPERATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CHARACTER ERROR RATE; MANDARIN LARGE VOCABULARY CONTINUOUS SPEED RECOGNITION SYSTEM; MANDARIN SPEECH RECOGNITION; PITCH TRACKING ALGORITHM; TONE FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0033677211     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2000.861942     Document Type: Conference Paper

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