A combined recognition system for online handwritten Pinyin input

We have developed an online pinyin recognition system which combined hmm method and statistic method together. Pinyin recognition is useful for those who may forget how to write a certain Chinese character but know how to pronounce it. We combined HMM model and statistic model to segment a word and recognize it. We have achieved a writer-independent accuracy of 91.37% for 17745 unconstrained-style Pinyin syllables.

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