A quantitative assessment of the importance of tone in Mandarin speech recognition

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 867-870

  Ng, Tim ^a   Siu, Manhung ^a   Ostendorf, Mari ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese speech recognition; Perplexity; Tone

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; WORD PROCESSING;

CHINESE SPEECH RECOGNITION; LEXICAL AMBIGUITIES; SYLLABLE RECOGNITION; TONE RECOGNITION; WORD PERPLEXITY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 29144529733     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2005.859495     Document Type: Article

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