Modeling Cantonese pronunciation variation by acoustic model refinement

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1477-1480

  Kam, Patgi ^a   Lee, Tan ^a   Soong, Frank K ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODELING LANGUAGES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; TELEPHONE SETS;

ACOUSTIC MODEL; CANTONESE; GAUSSIAN MIXTURES; MIXTURE COMPONENTS; PRONUNCIATION MODELING; PRONUNCIATION VARIATION; SOUND CHANGE; WORD ERROR RATE REDUCTIONS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009206008     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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