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Tone recognition for Chinese speech: A comparative study of Mandarin and Cantonese

  • Gang Peng
  • , Hongying Zheng
  • , William Shi Yuan Wang

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

Abstract

This 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 tone recognition of Mandarin and Cantonese will be studied. Furthermore, the two tone systems will be 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 databases (for Mandarin).
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2004 International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing - Proceedings
Pages233-236
Number of pages4
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2004
Externally publishedYes
Event2004 International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing - Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 15 Dec 2004 → 18 Dec 2004

Conference

Conference2004 International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing
Country/TerritoryHong Kong
CityHong Kong, China
Period15/12/04 → 18/12/04

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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