Interspeech'2005 - Eurospeech Lisbon, Portugal September 4-8, 2005

A Hybrid Approach to Automatic Segmentation and Labeling for Mandarin Chinese Speech Corpus

Cheng-Yuan Lin, Kuan-Ting Chen, J.-S. Roger Jang

National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

In this paper, we propose a hybrid approach to refine the phonetic boundaries in a Mandarin speech corpus. This approach employs different sets of acoustic features for different categories of phonetic transitions, except for the most difficult case of "periodic voiced + periodic voiced", which is therefore handled by a heuristic scheme. Several experiments are designed to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach.

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Bibliographic reference.  Lin, Cheng-Yuan / Chen, Kuan-Ting / Jang, J.-S. Roger (2005): "A hybrid approach to automatic segmentation and labeling for Mandarin Chinese speech corpus", In INTERSPEECH-2005, 1553-1556.