Title :
Phonetic and linguistic features of spoken Chinese
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Acoust., Acad. Sinica, Beijing, China
Abstract :
The phonetic and linguistic features of spoken Chinese which are closely related to the research and development of speech I/O systems are discussed at different linguistic levels. It is shown that: (1) the syllable structures of Chinese are an advantage in increasing the syllable intelligibility; (2) the rank order of the principal phonetic features is voiced, aspirated, fricative, and places of articulation; (3) the statistical relation between the intelligibility of different speech units can be described by a Bayes probability model; (4) the task of developing a continuous speech recognition system for Chinese faces a number of linguistic barriers
Keywords :
Bayes methods; natural languages; probability; speech intelligibility; speech recognition; Bayes probability model; articulation; aspirated features; continuous speech recognition system; development; fricative features; phonetic features; rank order; research; speech I/O systems; speech intelligibility; speech units; spoken Chinese; statistics; syllable intelligibility; syllable structures; voiced features; Acoustics; Automatic speech recognition; Humans; Natural languages; Oral communication; Psychology; Research and development; Speech processing; Speech recognition; Speech synthesis;
Conference_Titel :
Speech, Image Processing and Neural Networks, 1994. Proceedings, ISSIPNN '94., 1994 International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1865-X
DOI :
10.1109/SIPNN.1994.344951
