Title :
Tone recognition for Chinese speech: a comparative study of Mandarin and Cantonese
Author :
Peng, Gang ; Hongying Zheng ; Wang, William S Z
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China
Abstract :
The paper presents a comparative study on automatic continuous tone recognition for Mandarin and Cantonese. Compared with Mandarin, Cantonese has a much more complex tone system. The effects of F0 normalization on the tone recognition of Mandarin and Cantonese are studied. Furthermore, the two tone systems are compared from an engineering point of view. Tone recognition accuracies of 71.50% and 83.06% have been obtained for Cantonese and Mandarin respectively. These results compare favorably with results reported for other tone recognition experiments on the same (for Cantonese) and similar (for Mandarin) databases.
Keywords :
linguistics; natural languages; speech processing; speech recognition; Cantonese; Chinese speech recognition; Mandarin; automatic continuous tone recognition; normalization; Automatic speech recognition; Hidden Markov models; Natural languages; Neural networks; Spatial databases; Speech recognition; Testing; Training data;
Conference_Titel :
Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2004 International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8678-7
DOI :
10.1109/CHINSL.2004.1409629
