Chinese language is a tonal language
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In this paper, we first introduce the use of Gaussian mixture models (GMM) for Chinese tone classification in continuous speech. Then, we explain how to integrate it with the HMM-based speech recognition system. Finally, we provide the tone classification accuracy of this probabilistic method which is tested with Chinese continuous speech database of national “863” project.
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تاریخ انتشار 1999