Refining of segmental boundaries in speech waveforms using...

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2004-04-13

2009-02-24

Vo, Huyen X. (Department: 2626)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

Recognition

C704S243000, C704S244000, C704S245000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07496512

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus are provided for refining segmental boundaries in speech waveforms. Contextual acoustic feature similarities are used as a basis for clustering adjacent phoneme speech units, where each adjacent pair phoneme speech units include a segmental boundary. A refining model is trained for each cluster and used to refine boundaries of contextual phoneme speech units forming the clusters.

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