Segmental tonal modeling for tonal languages
US7684987B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 21, 2004 |
| Grant date | Mar 23, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 25, 2026 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L2015/027
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A phone set for use in speech processing such as speech recognition or text-to-speech conversion is used to model or form syllables of a tonal language having a plurality of different tones. Each syllable includes an initial part that can be glide dependent and a final part. The final part includes a plurality of phones. Each phones carries partial tonal information such that the phones taken together implicitly and jointly represent the different tones.
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