Tone nucleus modeling for Chinese lexical tone recognition

Speech Communication

Volumn 42, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 447-466

  Zhang, Jinsong ^a,b   Hirose, Keikichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Articulatory transition; Tone recognition; Tone nucleus; Underlying target

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCIES; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ARTICULATORY TRANSITION; TONE RECOGNITION; TONE-NUCLEUS; UNDERLAYING-TARGET;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 1842475630     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2004.01.001     Document Type: Article

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