International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 29 (2002), Issue 2, Pages 121-124
doi:10.1155/S0161171202010141
Introduction of the speaking rate in the model of speech recognition
Département de Mathématique, Faculté des Sciences, Université Mohamed Premier, Oujda, Morocco
Received 16 February 2000
Copyright © 2002 Abdellah Yousfi and Abdelouafi Meziane. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
We propose an improvement to the centisecond TLHMM model
(Meziane, 1999) applied to the sound duration. Indeed, the
distribution of the sound duration depends on the speaking rate.
An adaptation in a post-processing step is needed. This
adaptation is studied by proposing a model of the speaking rate
based on average syllabic duration. The experiments elaborated on
a set of BDSONS show the interest of this approach.
This work is a continuation of those by Meziane (1999) and
Suaudeau (1994).