Polyphone network method and apparatus

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2008-01-15

2008-01-15

Azad, Abul K. (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

Recognition

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ABSTRACT:
Acoustic phones (preferably drawn12from a plurality of spoken languages) are provided11.A hierarchically-organized polyphone network (20) organizes views of these phones of varying resolution and phone categorization as a function, at least in part, of phonetic similarity (14) and at least one language-independent phonological factor (15). In a preferred approach, a unique transcription system serves to represent the phones using only standard, printable ASCII characters, none of which comprises a special character (such as those characters that have a command significance for common script interpreters such as the UNIX command line).

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