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Tone recognition in Mandarin using focus
Native speakers of Mandarin produce and perceive tones in ways that depend on the focus with which each word is produced [1]. This paper gives one approach to improving tone recognition algorithms using focus, by training different support vector machines on syllables conditional on their position with respect to the focused word in a sentence. In a four-way tone classification task on focus-la...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Acta Linguistica Hungarica
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1216-8076,1588-2624
DOI: 10.1556/aling.55.2008.3-4.13