An improved Mandarin speech dictation machine for intelligent terminals of advanced communication networks

Author

Lee, Lin-shan ; Tseng, Chiu-Yu ; Gu, Hung-Yan ; Liu, Fu-hua

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

1989

fDate

27-30 Nov 1989

Firstpage

965

Abstract

An improved experimental Mandarin dictation machine for the input of Chinese characters to computers and networks is described. Considering the special characteristics of the Chinese language, syllables are chosen as the basic units for dictation. The machine is divided into two subsystems. The first recognized the syllables using hidden Markov models (HMMs) trained by special algorithms. Because every syllable can represent many different characters with completely different meanings and can possibly form different multisyllabic words with syllables on its right or left, the second subsystem then identifies the exact characters from the syllables and corrects the errors in syllable recognition using a specially designed Chinese language model

Keywords

Markov processes; character sets; dictation; intelligent networks; interactive terminals; languages; speech recognition; Chinese characters; Chinese language model; HMM; Mandarin speech dictation machine; advanced communication networks; hidden Markov models; intelligent terminals; syllable recognition error correction; Communication networks; Computer networks; Computer science; Error correction; Hidden Markov models; History; Intelligent networks; Machine intelligence; Natural languages; Speech;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference and Exhibition 'Communications Technology for the 1990s and Beyond' (GLOBECOM), 1989. IEEE

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1989.64103

Filename

64103