SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANDARIN CHINESE SPEECH RECOGNITION USING AN OPTIMIZED PHONE SET

摘要

The present invention comprises a system and method for implementing a Mandarin Chinese speech recognizer with an optimized phone set (610), and may include a recognizer configured to compare input speech data to phone strings from a vocabulary dictionary that is implemented according to optimized Mandarin Chinese phone set (610). The optimized Mandarin Chinese phone set (610) may be implemented with a phonetic technique to separately include consonantal phones and vocalic phones. For reasons of system efficiency, the optimized Mandarin Chinese phone set (610) may preferably be implemented in a compact manner to include only a minimum required number of consonantal phones and vocalic phones to accurately represent Mandarin Chinese speech during the speech recognition procedure.