EUROSPEECH 2003 - INTERSPEECH 2003 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology Geneva, Switzerland September 1-4, 2003

Performance Evaluation of Phonotactic and Contextual Onset-Rhyme Models for Speech Recognition of Thai Language

Somchai Jitapunkul, Ekkarit Maneenoi, Visarut Ahkuputra, Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin

Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

This paper proposed two acoustic modelings of the onsetrhyme for speech recognition. The two models are Phonotactic Onset-Rhyme Model (PORM) and Contextual Onset-Rhyme Model (CORM). The models comprise a pair of onset and rhyme units, which makes up a syllable. An onset comprises an initial consonant and its transition towards the following vowel. Together with the onset, the rhyme consists of a steady vowel portion and a final consonant. The experiments have been carried out to find the proper acoustic model, which can accurately model Thai sound and gives higher accuracy. Experimental results show that the onset-rhyme model excels the efficiency of the triphone for both PORM and CORM. The PORM achieves higher syllable accuracy than the CORM 2.74%. Moreover the onset-rhyme models also give a more efficiency in term of system complexity compared to the triphone models.

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Bibliographic reference.  Jitapunkul, Somchai / Maneenoi, Ekkarit / Ahkuputra, Visarut / Luksaneeyanawin, Sudaporn (2003): "Performance evaluation of phonotactic and contextual onset-rhyme models for speech recognition of Thai language", In EUROSPEECH-2003, 1841-1844.