Pronunciation Modeling of Mandarin Casual Speech
@inproceedings{Fung2000PronunciationMO,
title={Pronunciation Modeling of Mandarin Casual Speech},
author={Pascale Fung and William J. Byrne and Zheng Thomas and Teresa M. Kamm and Liu Yi and Song Zhanjiang and Veera Venkataramani and Umar Ruhi},
year={2000}
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