Abstract:To explore the potential of prosody for Mandarin speech recognition, this paper addresses the tone modeling problem and its integration issue. This study adopts the maximum entropy approach to capture both acoustic and lexical characteristics of tones due to its flexibility in handling multiple interacting features. Moreover, considering the phoneme factor, besides a tone model, a phoneme dependent model is also constructed. With regard to the model integration, the presented models are integrated into the rec… Show more
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