Abstract
In this paper we present a study of the voicing profiles of consonants in Mandarin Chinese and German. The voicing profile is defined as the frame-by-frame voicing status of a speech sound in continuous speech. We are particularly interested in discrepancies between the phonological voicing status of a speech sound and its actual phonetic realization in connected speech. We further examine the contextual factors that cause voicing variations and test the cross-language validity of these factors. The result can be used to improve speech synthesis, and to refine phone models to enhance the performance of automatic speech segmentation and recognition.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| State | Published - 1998 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998 - Sydney, Australia Duration: Nov 30 1998 → Dec 4 1998 |
Conference
| Conference | 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998 |
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| Country/Territory | Australia |
| City | Sydney |
| Period | 11/30/98 → 12/4/98 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language