Tone Recognition Using Lifters and CTC

07/06/2018
by   Loren Lugosch, et al.
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In this paper, we present a new method for recognizing tones in continuous speech for tonal languages. The method works by converting the speech signal to a cepstrogram, extracting a sequence of cepstral features using a convolutional neural network, and predicting the underlying sequence of tones using a connectionist temporal classification (CTC) network. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated on a freely available Mandarin Chinese speech corpus, AISHELL-1, and is shown to outperform the existing techniques in the literature in terms of tone error rate (TER).

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