Classification of Thai Tone Sequences in Syllable-Segmented Speech Using the Analysis-by-Synthesis M - Speech and Audio Processing, IEEE Transactions on
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Tone classification is important for Thai speech recognition because tone affects the lexical identification of words. An analysisby-synthesis algorithm for classifying Thai tones in syllable-segmented speech is presented that uses an extension to Fujisaki’s model for tone languages that incorporates tonal assimilation and declination. The classifier correctly identifies all of the tones in 89.1% of the test utterances.
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