The four tones recognition of continuous Chinese speech

The requirement of continuity in pitch contours of continuous Chinese speech makes the pitch variation forms deviate from their original patterns and result in much difficulty in The Four Tones recognition. Experiments indicate that the information of articulation ways of adjacent words should be considered when The Four Tones recognition is carried on. An approach of The Four Tones of continuous Chinese speech recognition based on above idea is proposed and the analysis on it is also given.