When CTC Training Meets Acoustic Landmarks

no code implementations • 5 Nov 2018 • Di He, Xuesong Yang, Boon Pang Lim, Yi Liang, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Deming Chen

In this paper, the convergence properties of CTC are improved by incorporating acoustic landmarks.

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)

Improved ASR for Under-Resourced Languages Through Multi-Task Learning with Acoustic Landmarks

no code implementations • 15 May 2018 • Di He, Boon Pang Lim, Xuesong Yang, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Deming Chen

Furui first demonstrated that the identity of both consonant and vowel can be perceived from the C-V transition; later, Stevens proposed that acoustic landmarks are the primary cues for speech perception, and that steady-state regions are secondary or supplemental.

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