Automatic mispronunciation detection for mandarin

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5077-5080

  Zhang, Feng ^a,b   Huang, Chao ^b   Soong, Frank K ^b   Chu, Min ^b   Wang, Renhua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

Automatic mispronunciation detection (AMD); Log posterior probability; Selective maximum likelihood linear regression (SMLLR); Speaker adaptive training (SAT)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; PASSIVATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC MISPRONUNCIATION DETECTION (AMD); LOG-POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; SELECTIVE MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD LINEAR REGRESSION (SMLLR); SPEAKER ADAPTIVE TRAINING (SAT);

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 51449095021     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518800     Document Type: Conference Paper

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