Phoneme Proportion Constancy in English

Novel Popout in English Phoneme Monitoring

A hierarchical model for phoneme duration in american English

We are developing a model which predicts phoneme duration as a function of segmental and suprasegmental factors, with the objective of using it for speech recognition. Our goal is to account for the many duration effects, rauging from local phonetic to sentence-level, and to determine how accurately we can model segment durations for sentences drawn from a !arge database spoken by many speakers...

Analysis of L2 English speech corpus by automatic phoneme alignment

This study tested the application of adapted HTK for automatic alignment of speech corpus of Asian speakers’ English. The HTK tool with TIMIT has problems in aligning non-native speakers’ English. New sets of phoneme sequences for each word were listed to test if an adapted alignment module could accurately analyze pronunciation of Japanese speakers’ English. The new sets of phoneme sequences p...

Using English Phoneme Models for Chinese Speech Recognition

To build a speech recognizer, database design, collection and transcription is the most time consuming and tedious job. This paper proposes some fast and easy methods to use English phoneme models for Mandarin and Cantonese speech recognition with little to no training data in Mandarin and Cantonese. While a recognizer built with such transformed models might not perform as ideally as one that ...

English-to-Korean Transliteration using Multiple Unbounded Overlapping Phoneme Chunks

We present in this paper the method of English-to-Korean(E-K) transliteration and back-transliteration. In Korean technical documents, many English words are transliterated into Korean words in various forms in diverse ways. As English words and Korean transliterations are usually technical terms and proper nouns, it is hard to nd a transliteration and its variations in a dictionary. Therefore ...