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A bag-of-phonemes model for homeplace classification of mandarin speakers

  • Hanqing Zhao*
  • , Zengchang Qin
  • , Yiyu Wang
  • , Yuxiao Wang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University
  • Fu Jen Catholic University

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Abstract

Mandarin, also known as Standard Chinese is the official language of China and Singapore, there are certain differences when mandarin is spoken by people from different homeplaces. The homeplace classification is important in speech recognition and machine translation. In this paper, we proposed a novel model named Bag-of-phonemes (BOP) for homeplace classification of mandarin speakers, which follows the conceptually similar idea of the Bag-of-words (BOW) model in text processing. The low-level Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) speach features of each homeplace are clustered into a set of codewords referred to as phonemes. With this codebook, each speech signal can be represented by a feature vector of distribution on phonemes. Classical classifiers such as support vector machine (SVM) can be applied for classification. This model is tested by RASC863 database, empirical studies show that the new model has a better performance on the RASC863 database comparing to previous works [1].

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPattern Recognition and Image Analysis - 7th Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2015, Proceedings
EditorsJaime S. Cardoso, Roberto Paredes, Xosé M. Pardo
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages683-690
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9783319193892
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event7th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2015 - Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Duration: 17 Jun 201519 Jun 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9117
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference7th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2015
Country/TerritorySpain
CitySantiago de Compostela
Period17/06/1519/06/15

Keywords

  • Bag-of-phonemes
  • Bag-of-words
  • Mandarin accents

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