Anchoring hypothesis and its application to tone recognition of Chinese continuous speech

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2000, Pages 1419-1422

  Zhang, Jin Song ^a   Hirose, Keikichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PROCESSING; ALGORITHMS; ERROR CORRECTION; LINGUISTICS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TOPOLOGY;

ANCHOR POINT; CHINESE LEXICAL TONES; CONTINUOUS SPEECH; ITS APPLICATIONS; LEXICAL TONES; NEW APPROACHES; TONE RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CHINESE CONTINUOUS SPEECH; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; PITCH ANCHORING HYPOTHESIS; TONE NUCLEUS MODEL; TONE RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033693212     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2000.861859     Document Type: Conference Paper

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