Models of tone for tonal and non-tonal languages

2013 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2013 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 261-266

  Metze, Florian ^a   Sheikh, Zaid A W ^a   Waibel, Alex ^a   Gehring, Jonas ^b   Kilgour, Kevin ^b   Nguyen, Quoc Bao ^b   Nguyen, Van Huy ^b  

^a InterACT ^*  (United States)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic Modeling; Automatic Speech Recognition; Neural Networks; Tonal Features; Tone Modeling

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CONSISTENT PERFORMANCE; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; FEATURE INTEGRATION; PERFORMANCE BENEFITS; TONAL FEATURES; TONE MODELING;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84893656667     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2013.6707740     Document Type: Conference Paper

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