System and method for Mandarin Chinese speech recognition using an optimized phone set
US7353173B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 31, 2003 |
| Grant date | Apr 1, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 3, 2025 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L2015/025
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The present invention comprises a system and method for implementing a Mandarin Chinese speech recognizer with an optimized phone set, and may include a recognizer configured to compare input speech data to phone strings from a vocabulary dictionary that is implemented according to an optimized Mandarin Chinese phone set. The optimized Mandarin Chinese phone set may be implemented with a phonetic technique to separately include consonantal phones and vocalic phones. For reasons of system efficiency, the optimized Mandarin Chinese phone set may preferably be implemented in a compact manner to include only a minimum required number of consonantal phones and vocalic phones to accurately represent Mandarin Chinese speech during the speech recognition procedure.
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