Improved tone modeling for mandarin broadcast news speech recognition

INTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1237-1240

  Lei, Xin ^a   Siu, Manhung ^b   Hwang, Mei Yuh ^a   Ostendorf, Mari ^a   Lee, Tan ^c  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

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

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Mandarin; Speech recognition; Tone modeling

Indexed keywords

DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

BROADCAST NEWS; CHARACTER ERROR RATES; MANDARIN; MANDARIN AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPECTRAL FEATURE; STATE OF THE ART; TEST SETS; TONE MODELING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 44849137298     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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