Pronunciation variation analysis based on acoustic and phonemic distance measures with application examples on Mandarin Chinese

2003 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 117-122

  Tsai, Ming Yi ^a   Lee, Lin Shan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES;

ACOUSTIC DISTANCE; ACOUSTIC MODELLING; APPLICATION EXAMPLES; MAHALANOBIS DISTANCES; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; PRONUNCIATION MODELLING; PRONUNCIATION VARIATION; STATISTICAL DISTANCE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84946724769     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2003.1318414     Document Type: Conference Paper

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