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Unsupervised labeling of sentence level accent

  • US 20080201145A1
  • Filed: 02/20/2007
  • Published: 08/21/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of training an acoustic model, the method comprising:

  • classifying each of a plurality of words as being either a content word or a function word;

    utilizing a characteristic of at least one of the content words as a basis for identifying an accent characteristic of at least one of the function words; and

    training the acoustic model so as to be indicative of the accent characteristic.

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