6 Research Goal a To develop a general framework to model in dialectal Chinese Asr tasks: g Phonetic variability i Lexical variability and i Pronunciation variability u To find suitable methods to modify the baseline pth recognizer to obtain a dialectal Chinese recognizer for the specific dialect of interest, which employ g dialect-related knowledge(syllable mapping, cross-dialect synonyms,.), and training/adaptation data ( in relatively small quantities a Expectation: the resulted recognizer should also work for PTH, in other words it should be good for a mixture of Pth and dialectal chinese a This proposal was selected as one of three projects for 2003 Johns Hopkins University Summer Workshop from tens of proposals collected from universities/companies over the world, and was postponed to 2004 due to SARS GoalMotivation Goal Knowledge Data Collection Workshop Conclusion I SDPBMM Conclusion II 6 Research Goal ❑ To develop a general framework to model in dialectal Chinese ASR tasks :- ❖ Phonetic variability, ❖ Lexical variability, and ❖ Pronunciation variability ❑ To find suitable methods to modify the baseline PTH recognizer to obtain a dialectal Chinese recognizer for the specific dialect of interest, which employ :- ❖ dialect-related knowledge (syllable mapping, cross-dialect synonyms, …), and ❖ training/adaptation data (in relatively small quantities) ❑ Expectation: the resulted recognizer should also work for PTH, in other words, it should be good for a mixture of PTH and dialectal Chinese. ❑ This proposal was selected as one of three projects for '2003 Johns Hopkins University Summer Workshop from tens of proposals collected from universities/companies over the world, and was postponed to 2004 due to SARS