This paper describes the Philips Large Vocabulary Continuous Mandarin speech recognition system for the 1999 Taiwan benchmark. The basic system architecture is based on the Philips LVCSR technology developed for Western languages. However, several modifications are made in order to better suitted processing Chinese spoken languages. In the paper, we present some experimental results on the two tasks we participated in this benchmark: digit and continuous syllable. For the development set, we were able to obtain a digit/syllable error rate of 2.9%/23.9%. At the final evaluation, our system achieves the lowest error rate of 3.1%/24.3% among all participating sites.
Cite as: Che, C., Wang, N., Huang, M., Huang, H., Seide, F. (1999) Development of the philips 1999 taiwan Mandarin benchmark system. Proc. 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1999), 803-806, doi: 10.21437/Eurospeech.1999-195
@inproceedings{che99_eurospeech,
author={Chiwei Che and Nick Wang and Max Huang and Hank Huang and Frank Seide},
title={{Development of the philips 1999 taiwan Mandarin benchmark system}},
year=1999,
booktitle={Proc. 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1999)},
pages={803--806},
doi={10.21437/Eurospeech.1999-195}
}