System learns to distinguish words' phonetic components, without human annotation of training data
Monday, September 14, 2015 - 05:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Every language has its own collection of phonemes, or the basic phonetic units from which spoken words are composed. Depending on how you count, English has somewhere between 35 and 45. Knowing a language's phonemes can make it much easier for automated systems to learn to interpret speech.