Unsupervised pronunciation grammar growing using knowledge-based and data-driven approaches

Chien-Lin Huang, Chung-Hsien Wu, Haizhou Li, Chia-Hsin Hsieh, Bin Ma

Abstract: This study presents a novel approach to unsupervised pronunciation grammar growing for non-native speech recognition. Unsupervised pronunciation grammar growing includes pronunciation variation graph construction and non-native grammar generation. Knowledge-based and data-driven approaches are considered for variation graph construction. The measurement of confidence and support is used for grammar selection. Experiments show that unsupervised pronunciation grammar growing is suitable for the improvement of non-native speech recognition.