Tone recognition of continuous Cantonese speech based on support vector machines

Speech Communication

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 49-62

  Peng, Gang ^a   Wang, William S Y ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; F 0 normalization; Support vector machines; Tone language; Tone recognition

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; F0 NORMALIZATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TONE LANGUAGES; TONE RECOGNITION;

DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 11144297989     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2004.09.004     Document Type: Article

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