Competing model based tone evaluation for mandarin speech

Yang Qu, Yue Lu, Patrick S.P. Wang, Xin He

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances on Digital Television and Wireless Multimedia Communications - 9th International Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2012, Proceedings
Pages182-188
Number of pages7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event9th International Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2012 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 9 Nov 201210 Nov 2012

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume331 CCI
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Conference

Conference9th International Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2012
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period9/11/1210/11/12

Keywords

  • Competing models
  • Linguistic knowledge
  • Tone evaluation
  • speech recognition

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