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Automatic language independent triphone training using a phonetic table

  • US 20050075887A1
  • Filed: 10/07/2003
  • Published: 04/07/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for training acoustic models for a target language comprising the steps of:

  • a) providing a phonetic table of a reference, which characterizes the phones used in one or more reference languages with respect to their articulatory properties;

    b) providing a phonetic table of a target language, which characterizes the phones used in the target language with respect to their articulatory properties;

    c) providing a set of trained monophones for each reference language;

    d) providing a database of utterances in the target language and phonetic transcription of the utterances in the database; and

    e) processing using table correspondence processing methods and phonetic model seeding.

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