Abstract
Sound-imitation words, a sound-related subset of onomatopoeia, are important for computer-human interaction and automatic tagging of sound archives. The main problem of automatic recognition of sound-imitation word is that the literal representation of such words is dependent on listeners and influenced by a particular cultural history. Based on our preliminary experiments of such dependency and the sonority theory, we discovered that the process of transforming environmental sounds into syllable-structure expressions is mostly listener-independent while that of transforming syllablestructure expressions into sound-imitation words is mostly listener-dependent and influenced by culture. This paper focuses on the former lister-independent process and presents the three-stage architecture of automatic transformation of environmental sounds to sound-imitation words; segmenting sound signals to syllables, identifying syllable structure as mora, and recognizing mora as phonemes.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology |
| Publisher | International Speech Communication Association |
| Pages | 3185-3188 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - 2003 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003 - Geneva, Switzerland Duration: 2003 Sept 1 → 2003 Sept 4 |
Other
| Other | 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003 |
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| Country/Territory | Switzerland |
| City | Geneva |
| Period | 03/9/1 → 03/9/4 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science Applications
- Software
- Linguistics and Language
- Communication