Title
Competing Model Based Tone Evaluation for Mandarin Speech
Abstract
Tone is a distinctive feature in Mandarin. This paper describes an attempt to automate the tone evaluation for continuous Mandarin speech. An HMM forced alignment based tone model is used to get tone score for Mandarin syllables. The competing model based approach is introduced to get tonal syllable score. Especially, we generate the syllable-based competing models by using the simplified linguistic knowledge based initial/final net. For the purpose of getting more objective tone evaluation, we integrate tonal syllable score and tone score together to acquire the overall tone scoring results. The experimental results demonstrate that this proposed competing models based method gives an accurate tone evaluation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-34595-1_26
ADVANCES ON DIGITAL TELEVISION AND WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Tone evaluation,Competing models,Linguistic knowledge,speech recognition
Computer science,Speech recognition,Syllable,Distinctive feature,Hidden Markov model,Mandarin Chinese
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
331
1865-0929
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yang Qu110310.67
Yue Lu21617101.51
Wang, P.S.P.33310.07
Xin He48028.00