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Prosody for Mandarin speech recognition: a comparative study of read and spontaneous speech

@inproceedings{Yeung2008ProsodyFM,
  title={Prosody for Mandarin speech recognition: a comparative study of read and spontaneous speech},
  author={Y. Yeung and Yao Qian and T. Lee and F. Soong},
  booktitle={INTERSPEECH},
  year={2008}
}

Y. Yeung, Yao Qian, +1 author F. Soong

Published in INTERSPEECH 2008

Computer Science

In this paper, we present a comparative study between spontaneous speech and read Mandarin speech in the context of automatic speech recognition. We focus on analysis and modeling of prosodic features, based on a unique speech corpus that contains similar amounts of read and spontaneous speech data from the same group of speakers. Statistical analysis is carried out on tone contours and duration of syllable and subsyllable units. Speech recognition experiments are performed to evaluate the… CONTINUE READING

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