Abstract
Whispered Chinese speech recognition is important in many applications. This paper summarized the acoustic characteristics of whispered speech and introduces existing whispered speech corpuses. A whispered speech corpus was then built with both male and female whispered and normal speech patterns for numbers. The whispered speech patterns are analyzed to identity what a speaker should emphasize, how to choose text materials for a corpus and how to construct the corpus. Then the corpus is used to analyze the acoustic characteristics of whispered Chinese speech.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 725-729 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Qinghua Daxue Xuebao/Journal of Tsinghua University |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue number | SUPPL. |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2008 |
Keywords
- Acoustic characteristics
- Whisper database
- Whispered numbers