Large vocabulary continuous Mandarin speech recognition has been an important problem
for speech recognition researchers for several reasons [1],[3]. First of all, it is a tonal …

Golden Mandarin (II) is an improved single-chip real-time Mandarin dictation machine with a
very large vocabulary for the input of unlimited Chinese sentences into computers using …

The Chinese language is not alphabetic, and input of Chinese characters into computers
remains a difficult problem even after decades of efforts made to overcome the problem …

This paper presents a new scheme to deal with variations in fundamental frequency (F0)
contours for lexical tone recognition in continuous Chinese speech. We divide F0 contour of …

This correspondence presents the first known results of complete recognition of continuous
Mandarin speech for the Chinese language with very large vocabulary but very limited …

Golden Mandarin (II) is an intelligent single-chip based real-time Mandarin dictation
machine for the Chinese language with a very large vocabulary for the input of unlimited …

In this paper, we propose a new scheme to analyze the spectral structure of speech signals
for fundamental frequency estimation. First, we propose a pitch measure to detect the …

This paper proposes a new consonant/vowel (C/V) segmentation algorithm for Mandarin
speech signal. Since the Mandarin phoneme structure is a combination of a consonant (may …

This paper presents a set of corpus-based text-to-speech synthesis technologies for
Mandarin Chinese. A large speech corpus produced by a single speaker is used, and the …

The general goal of this thesis is to model the prosodic aspects of speech to improve
humancomputer dialogue systems. Towards this goal, we investigate a variety of ways of …