DocumentCode
430203
Title
Tone recognition for Chinese speech: a comparative study of Mandarin and Cantonese
Author
Peng, Gang ; Hongying Zheng ; Wang, William S Z
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China
fYear
2004
fDate
15-18 Dec. 2004
Firstpage
233
Lastpage
236
Abstract
The paper presents a comparative study on automatic continuous tone recognition for Mandarin and Cantonese. Compared with Mandarin, Cantonese has a much more complex tone system. The effects of F0 normalization on the tone recognition of Mandarin and Cantonese are studied. Furthermore, the two tone systems are compared from an engineering point of view. Tone recognition accuracies of 71.50% and 83.06% have been obtained for Cantonese and Mandarin respectively. These results compare favorably with results reported for other tone recognition experiments on the same (for Cantonese) and similar (for Mandarin) databases.
Keywords
linguistics; natural languages; speech processing; speech recognition; Cantonese; Chinese speech recognition; Mandarin; automatic continuous tone recognition; normalization; Automatic speech recognition; Hidden Markov models; Natural languages; Neural networks; Spatial databases; Speech recognition; Testing; Training data;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2004 International Symposium on
Print_ISBN
0-7803-8678-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CHINSL.2004.1409629
Filename
1409629
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