A syllable-based pseudo-articulatory approach to speech recognition

We present an account of the use of syllable structure as the basis for a novel approach to speech recognition. This contrasts with the serial organization of more conventional phonetic segments, and their use in speech recognition systems. It is demonstrated that working with syllables provides the basis for linguistically motivated speech recognition using pseudo-articulatory representations (PARs). The results are very promising taking into account the preliminary nature of the work and the novelty of the approach.