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Presentation 2009-07-18 09:25
Structural analysis of Chinese dialects and its experimental application to pronunciation assessment
Xuebin Ma, Nobuaki Minematsu (Univ. of Tokyo), Akira Nemoto (Nankai Univ.), Yu Qiao, Keikichi Hirose (Univ. of Tokyo) SP2009-45
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(in English) The current situation of Chinese dialects is very complicated, not only because there are hundreds kinds of dialects, sub-dialects and sub-sub-dialects in China, but also because many dialect speakers are speaking Mandarin with different regional accents affected by their dialects. So the automatic pronunciation assessment of Chinese dialects becomes a challenge, especially because that after the dialect utterances are represented by spectrum acoustically, the dialectal linguistic features are mixed with the extra-linguistic features such as the age, gender, speaker, etc. In this paper, we proposed to analyze the dialect pronunciation by a structural representation, which was originally used to remove extra-linguistic information from speech. After collecting the dialectal utterances of some selected Chinese written characters, the dialect pronunciation structures are build for these speakers and their pronunciation are assessed by the distances among the structures. Then with the dialect utterances of 16 native dialect speakers, some experiments are carried out to assess their pronunciation by the structures and linguistically-reasonable results are obtained. At last, by comparing the pronunciation structures of dialect speakers to two standard Mandarin speakers, the pronunciation similarity orders of their utterances of the selected characters are obtained. By the results of these experiments, our approach is proved again that it works well at extracting the linguistic features from dialect utterances and shows high independence to the extra-linguistic features.
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(in English) Chinese dialects / extra-linguistic features / structural analysis / pronunciation assessment / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 109, no. 139, SP2009-45, pp. 25-30, July 2009.
Paper # SP2009-45 
Date of Issue 2009-07-10 (SP) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Date 2009-07-17 - 2009-07-18 
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Conference Code 2009-07-SP 
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Title (in English) Structural analysis of Chinese dialects and its experimental application to pronunciation assessment 
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Keyword(1) Chinese dialects  
Keyword(2) extra-linguistic features  
Keyword(3) structural analysis  
Keyword(4) pronunciation assessment  
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1st Author's Name Xuebin Ma  
1st Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo)
2nd Author's Name Nobuaki Minematsu  
2nd Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo)
3rd Author's Name Akira Nemoto  
3rd Author's Affiliation Nankai University (Nankai Univ.)
4th Author's Name Yu Qiao  
4th Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo)
5th Author's Name Keikichi Hirose  
5th Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo)
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Date Time 2009-07-18 09:25:00 
Presentation Time 25 minutes 
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Paper # SP2009-45 
Volume (vol) vol.109 
Number (no) no.139 
Page pp.25-30 
#Pages 6 
Date of Issue 2009-07-10 (SP) 

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