Detecting tone errors in continuous Mandarin speech

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5065-5068

  Zhang, Yan Bin ^a   Chu, Min ^b   Huang, Chao ^b   Liang, Man Gui ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

Context depended tone model (CDTM); Kullback leibler divergence (KLD); Tone error detection

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CONTEXT DEPENDED TONE MODEL (CDTM); INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; KULLBACK-LEIBLER DIVERGENCE (KLD); TONE ERROR DETECTION;

SPEECH;

EID: 51449085855     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518797     Document Type: Conference Paper

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