Using Tone Information in Cantonese Continuous Speech Recognition

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 83-102

  Lee, Tan ^a   Lau, Wai ^a   Wong, Y W ^a   Ching, P C ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese dialects; F0 normalization; knowledge integration; Language; Performance; speech recognition; tone recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 1242349959     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: 15583430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/595576.595581     Document Type: Article

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