Hulan-2014-02-28

ASR

ASR Kernel development

[ASR group weekly report]

Patent

• Zhaofang finished the first version
• Liurong will contact the patent agent.

TTS

• Voice quality improvement

• Pronunciation lexicon check
• 50k Tencent lexicon is under check, by comparing google's result
• Incorrect entries reach to about 10%
• 90% pronunciations completed

• Child voice

• 2 utterances were obtained
• Adaptation finished (1 class)

Dialog system

• Zhaofang: N-best output completed
• Xiaoxi: weight-based matching almost completed

• investigate how weight involved in matching and caching
• FST-based match is under investigation

System design

• Demo completed (Fangxing & Yongtao)
• Input suggestion design & implementation (Yong tao)
• Improve WeChat interface (Yong tao)
• Initial test completed (Fanxing)

• Test1: alternative questions + pattern questions: 89.5% correction, 3.6% unmatch, 6.3% mismatch.
• Test2: Pattern questions: 70.9% correction, 3.9% unmatch, 29.1% mismatch.

• Fanxing prepare some project documents