On the syllable structures of Chinese relating to speech recognition

Author

Zhang, Jialu

Author_Institution

Inst. of Acoust., Acad. Sinica, Beijing, China

Volume

4

fYear

1996

fDate

3-6 Oct 1996

Firstpage

2450

Abstract

It is well known that Chinese is a tone language with a multi tone system, but the distinctive syllable structures relating to speech recognition have not been brought to phoneticians´ attention yet. The syllable structures and phonotactic rules are discussed and the joint probability of the initial and final syllables are given. A comparative study of the relative information transmitted by the position channel between Chinese and English shows that the syllable structures of Chinese have an advantage; they can increase the position recognition rate and syllable intelligibility. It is shown that perceiving a phoneme is based on the syllable in which it exits

Keywords

natural languages; probability; speech processing; speech recognition; Chinese; English; joint probability; multi tone system; phoneme perception; phonotactic rules; position recognition rate; speech recognition; syllable intelligibility; syllable structures; tone language; Acoustics; Education; Information analysis; Natural languages; Neck; Psychology; Speech analysis; Speech recognition; Speech synthesis; Tail;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Spoken Language, 1996. ICSLP 96. Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Philadelphia, PA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3555-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSLP.1996.607305

Filename

607305