A multilingual phonetic representation and analysis system for different speech databases

Author

Altosaar, Toomas ; Karjalainen, Matti ; Vainio, Martti

Author_Institution

Acoust. Lab., Helsinki Univ. of Technol., Espoo, Finland

Volume

3

fYear

1996

fDate

3-6 Oct 1996

Firstpage

1914

Abstract

A multilingual phonetic representation and analysis system for different speech databases is presented. The need for such a system is first justified and then one is proposed based on the Worldbet phonetic alphabet. A phonetic class hierarchy is developed and a description of the hierarchical structural representation follows. Database access is based on the latter and is accomplished by defining predicate search functions and applying them to a database. Immediate signal analysis of the results is possible since the multilingual phonetic representation system is seamlessly integrated into a digital signal processing environment

Keywords

database management systems; signal processing; speech processing; speech recognition; Worldbet phonetic alphabet; digital signal processing environment; hierarchical structural representation; multilingual phonetic representation and analysis system; phonetic class hierarchy; predicate search functions; signal analysis; speech databases; Audio databases; Labeling; Laboratories; Lattices; Natural languages; Performance analysis; Signal analysis; Speech analysis; Speech recognition; Speech synthesis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Spoken Language, 1996. ICSLP 96. Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Philadelphia, PA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3555-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSLP.1996.608008

Filename

608008