Tan Lee's publications

2005 - 2006

• C. Yang, Tan Lee and Frank K. Soong, “Static and dynamic spectral features: their noise robustness and optimal weights for ASR”, to appear in Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, March 2005.

2003 - 2004

• Joyce Y.C. Chan, P.C. Ching and Tan Lee, “Detection of language boundary in code-switching utterances by bi-phone probabilities”, in Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, pp.293 – 296, Hong Kong, December 2004.
• C. Qin and Tan Lee, “Cantonese verbal information verification System using GMM-based anti-model”, in Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, pp.297 – 300, Hong Kong, December 2004.
• C. Yang, Frank. K. Soong and Tan Lee, “On noise robustness of dynamic and static features for continuous Cantonese digits recognition”, in Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, pp.277 – 280, Hong Kong, December 2004.
• Yao Qian, Tan Lee and Frank K. Soong, “Tone information as a confidence measure for improving Cantonese large vocabulary continuous speech recognition”, in Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Jeju, Korea, October 2004.
• Nengheng Zheng, P.C. Ching and Tan Lee, “Time-frequency analysis of vocal source signal for speaker recognition”, in Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Jeju, Korea, October 2004.
• Yu Zhu and Tan Lee, “Explicit duration modeling for Cantonese connected-digit recognition”, in Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Jeju, Korea, October 2004.
• S.W. Lee, P.C. Ching and Tan Lee, "Noise-robust automatic speech recognition using mainlobe-resilient time-frequency quantile-based noise estimation", in Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol.3, pp.425 - 428, Vancouver, Canada, May 2004.
• Yujia Li, Tan Lee and Yao Qian, "F0 analysis and modeling for Cantonese text-to-speech", in Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2004, pp.467 - 470, Nara, Japan, March 2004.
• Yao Qian, Tan Lee and Frank K. Soong, "Use of tone information in continuous Cantonese speech recognition", in Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2004, pp.587- 590, Nara, Japan, March 2004.
• P.C. Ching, Tan Lee, W.K. Lo and Helen Meng, "The state of the art in human-computer speech-based interface technologies", in HKIE Transactions, Vol.10, No.4 (10th Anniversary Issue), pp.50 - 61, December 2003.
• Shan Ouyang, P.C. Ching and Tan Lee, "Robust adaptive quasi-Newton algorithms for eigensubspace estimation", in IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Vol.150, No.5, pp.321 - 330, October 2003.
• Wei Han, K.W. Hon, C.F. Chan, Tan Lee, C.S. Choy, K.P. Pun and P.C. Ching, "A real-time Chinese speech recognition IC with double mixtures", in Proceedings of the 5^th International Conference on ASIC, pp.926 – 929, Beijing, China, October 2003.
• Patgi Kam, Tan Lee and Frank Soong, "Modeling Cantonese pronunciation variation by acoustic model refinement", in Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, pp.1477 - 1480, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2003.
• Yao Qian, Tan Lee and Yujia Li, "Overlapped di-tone modeling for tone recognition in continuous Cantonese speech", in Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, pp.1845 - 1848, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2003.
• Wei Han, K.W. Hon, C.F. Chan, Tan Lee, C.S. Choy, K.P. Pun and P.C. Ching, "An HMM based speech recognition IC", in Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp.744 - 747, Bangkok, May 2003. 

  2001 - 2002

• Tan Lee, W.K. Lo and P.C. Ching, "Towards highly usable and robust spoken language technologies for Chinese", in Proceedings of the Second China-Japan Natural Language Processing Joint Research Promotion Conference, Beijing, China, November 2002.
• Shan Ouyang, P.C. Ching and Tan Lee, "Quasi-Newton algorithm for adaptive minor component extraction", in Electronics Letters, Vol.38, No.19, pp.1142 - 1144, September 2002.
• Patgi Kam and Tan Lee, "Modeling pronunciation variation for Cantonese speech recognition", in  Proceedings of ISCA ITR-Workshop on Pronunciation Modeling and Lexicon Adaptation, pp.12 - 17, Colorado, September 2002.
• Ka Yan Kwan, Tan Lee and Chen Yang, "Unsupervised N-Best based model adaptation using model-level confidence measure", in Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pp.69 - 72, Denver, September 2002.
• Tan Lee, Greg Kochanski, Chilin Shih and Yujia Li, "Modeling tones in continuous Cantonese speech", in Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, pp.2401 - 2404, Denver, September 2002.
• P.C. Ching, Shan Ouyang and Tan Lee, "A quasi-Newton algorithm for minor component analysis and its convergence", in Proceedings of IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing, pp.92 - 97, Hawaii, U.S.A., August 2002.
• Yujia Li, Tan Lee and Yao Qian, "Acoustical F0 analysis of continuous Cantonese speech", in Proceedings of the 2002 International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, pp.127 - 130, Taipei, August 2002.
• Ge Gao, P.C. Ching and Tan Lee, "A new approach to generating Pitch Cycle Waveform (PCW) for Waveform Interpolation codec", in Microprocessors and Microsystems, Vol.25, pp.421 - 426, 2002.
• Tan Lee, W.K. Lo, P.C. Ching and Helen Meng, "Spoken language resources for Cantonese speech processing", in Speech Communication, Vol.36, No.3-4, pp.327 - 342, March 2002.
• Tan Lee, Wai Lau, Y.W. Wong and P.C. Ching, "Using tone information in Cantonese continuous speech recognition", in the ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, Vol.1, No.1, pp.83 - 102, March 2002.
• W.N. Choi, Y.W. Wong, Tan Lee and P.C. Ching, "Searching for the missing piece", in Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Trento, Italy, December 2001.
• Patgi Kam, Carina Ngai, Tan Lee and P.C. Ching, "Speech-to-speech translation from Mandarin to Cantonese", in Proceedings of the 6th National Conference on Man Machine Speech Communication, Shenzhen, China, pp.139-142, November 2001.
• C.P. Chan, P.C. Ching and Tan Lee, "Noisy speech recognition using de-noised multi-resolution analysis acoustic features", in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol.110, No.5, pp.2567 - 2574, November 2001.
• Helen Meng, Suk Fong Chan, Yee Fong Wong, Cheong Chat Chan, Y.W. Wong, T.Y. Fung, W.C. Tsui, Ke Chen, Lan Wang, Tingyao Wu, Xiaolong Li, Tan Lee, W.N. Choi, P.C. Ching and Huisheng Chi, "ISIS: A learning system with combined interaction and delegation dialogs", in Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on on Speech Communication and Technology, Vol.3, pp.1551 - 1554, Aalborg, Denmark, September 2001.
• K.M. Law and Tan Lee, "Cantonese text-to-speech synthesis using sub-syllable units", in Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on on Speech Communication and Technology, Vol.2, pp.991 - 994, Aalborg, Denmark, September 2001.
• H.S. Lam, P.C. Ching, Tan Lee and Dominic Siu, "A low missing rate audio search technique for Cantonese broadcast recording", in Proceedings of the 2001 International Symposium on Multimedia Information Processing, Beijing, China, October 2001.
• W.K. Lo, P.C. Ching, Tan Lee and P.C. Ching, "Design, compilation and processing of CUCall: a set of Cantonese spoken language corpora collected over telephone networks", in Proceedings of Research on Computational Linguistics Conference XIV, pp.193 - 212, Tainan, Taiwan, August 2001.

 

1999 - 2000

• Wai Lau, Tan Lee, Y.W. Wong and P.C. Ching, "Incorporating tone information into Cantonese large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition", in Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Vol.2, pp.883 - 886, Beijing, China, October 2000.
• Helen Meng, Shuk Fong Chan, Yee Fong Wong, Tien Ying Fung, Wai Ching Tsui, Tin Hang Lo, Cheong Chat Chan, Ke Chen, Lan Wang, Ting Yao Wu, Xiaolong Li, Tan Lee, Wing Nin Choi, Yiu Wing Wong, P.C. Ching and Huisheng Chi, "ISIS: A multilingual spoken dialog system developed with CORBA and KQML agents", in Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Vol.2, pp.150 - 153, Beijing, China, October 2000.
• K.M. Law and Tan Lee, "Using cross-syllable units for Cantonese speech synthesis", in Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Vol.2, pp.407 - 410, Beijing, China, October 2000.
• W.N. Choi, Y.W. Wong, Tan Lee and P.C. Ching, "Lexical tree decoding with a class-based language model for Chinese speech recognition", in Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Vol.1, pp.174 - 177, Beijing, China, October 2000.
• K.M. Law, K.Y. Kwan and Tan Lee, "Corpus-based Cantonese speech synthesis with non-uniform units", in Proceedings of the 2000 International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, pp.133 - 136, Beijing, China, October 2000.
• Wai Lau, Y.W. Wong, W.K. Lo, Tan Lee and P.C. Ching, "A study on the contribution of lexical tones in Chinese LVCSR", in Proceedings of the 2000 International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, pp.129 - 132, Beijing, China, October 2000.
• Sheng Gao, Bo Xu, Tan Lee and Taiyi Huang, "A comparative study between Cantonese and Mandarin: a view from speech recognition engine portability", in Proceedings of the 2000 International Workshop on Multilingual Speech Communication, pp.49 - 53, Kyoto, Japan, October 2000.
• Sheng Gao, Tan Lee, Y.W. Wong, Bo Xu, P.C. Ching and Taiyi Huang, "Acoustic modeling for Chinese speech recognition: a comparative study of Mandarin and Cantonese", in Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol.3, pp.1261 - 4, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2000.
• Helen M. Meng, Tan Lee, T.Y. Fung, W.C. Tsui and P.Y. Yau, "Preliminary developments in CUHK's trilingual speech interface for financial information inquiries", (invited paper) in Proceedings of the 1999 International Symposium on Signal Processing and Intelligent Systems, Guangzhou, China, November 1999.
• Tan Lee, Helen M. Meng, W. Lau, W.K. Lo and P.C. Ching, "Micro-prosodic control in Cantonese text-to-speech synthesis", in Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Vol.4, pp.1855 - 8, Budapest, Hungary, September 1999.
• Y.W. Wong, K.F. Chow, W. Lau, W.K. Lo, Tan Lee and P.C. Ching, "Acoustic modeling and language modeling for Cantonese LVCSR", in Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Vol.3, pp.1091 - 4, Budapest, Hungary, September 1999.
• Tan Lee and P.C. Ching, "Cantonese syllable recognition using neural networks", in IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol.7, No.4, pp.466-472, July 1999.
• C.P. Chan, Tan Lee and P.C. Ching, "Two-dimensional multi-resolution analysis of speech signals and its application to speech recognition", in Proceedings of 1999 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol.1, pp.405 - 8, Phoenix, U.S.A., March 1999.

1997 - 1998

• K.F. Chow, Tan Lee and P.C. Ching, "Sub-syllable acoustic modeling for Cantonese speech recognition", in Proceedings of 1998 International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, pp.75 - 9, Singapore, Dec. 1998.
• W.K. Lo, Tan Lee and P.C. Ching, "Development of Cantonese spoken language corpora for speech applications", in Proceedings of 1998 International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, pp.102 - 7, Singapore, Dec. 1998.
• Tan Lee, Rolf Carlson and Björn Granström, "Context-dependent duration modelling for continuous speech recognition", in Proceedings of 1998 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Vol.7, pp.2955 - 8, Sydney, Australia, Nov. 1998.
• Tan Lee, P.C. Ching and L.W. Chan, "Isolated word recognition using modular recurrent neural networks", Pattern Recognition, Vol.31, No.6, pp.751 - 760.
• W.K. Lo, K.F. Chow, Tan Lee and P.C. Ching, "Cantonese database developed at CUHK for speech processing", Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on Phonetics of the Languages in China, pp.77 - 80, Hong Kong, May 1998.
• P.C. Ching, K.F. Chow, Tan Lee, Alfred Y.P. Ng and L.W. Chan, "Development of a large vocabulary speech database for Cantonese" (2,194 KB), Proceedings of 1997 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, April 1997, Munich, Germany.
• Tan Lee and P.C. Ching, "A neural network based speech recognition system for isolated Cantonese syllables", Proceedings of 1997 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, April 1997, Munich, Germany.

1992 - 1996

• Alfred Y.P. Ng, Tan Lee, P.C. Ching and L.W. Chan, "Recent advances in Cantonese speech recognition", Proceedings of 1996 International Symposium on Multi-Technology Information Processing, pp.139 - 144, December 1996, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
• Tan Lee and P.C.Ching, "On improving discrimination capability of an RNN based recognizer", Proceedings of 1996 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing , Vol.1, pp.522-525, October 1996, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
• C.M. Wu, H.S. Lam, P.C. Ching and Tan Lee, "Liberal Conference: real-time online voice conferencing over Internet", Proceedings of 1996 International Conference on Signal Processing Applications and Technology , Vol.2, 1692-1696, October 1996, Boston, U.S.A.
• Tan Lee, Automatic Recognition of Isolated Cantonese Syllables Using Neural Networks (10,380 KB), PhD Thesis, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 1996.
• Tan Lee, P.C.Ching and L.W.Chan, "An RNN based speech recognition system with discriminative training", Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Vol.3, pp.1667-1670, September 1995, Madrid, Spain.
• Tan Lee, P.C.Ching, L.W.Chan, Brian Mak and Y.H.Cheng, "Tone recognition of isolated Cantonese syllables", IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol.3, No.3, pp.204-209, May 1995.
• Tan Lee, P.C.Ching and L.W.Chan, "Recurrent neural networks for speech modeling and speech recognition", Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vol.5, pp.3319-3322, May 1995, Detroit, U.S.A.
• P.C.Ching, Tan Lee and Eric Zee, "From phonology and acoustic properties to automatic recognition of Cantonese", Proceedings of 1994 International Symposium on Speech, Image Processing and Neural Networks, Vol.1 pp.127-132, Hong Kong.
• Tan Lee, P.C.Ching, L.W.Chan and Brian Mak, "An NN based tone classifier for Cantonese", Proceedings of 1993 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Vol.1 pp.287-290, October 1993, Nagoya, Japan.

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