Related works have been done using syllable-based acoustic modeling on large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) for both monosyllabic and polysyllabic languages, including Mandarin (Lee et al., 1993;Pan et al., 2012;Deng Li and Li Xiao, 2013;Hu et al., 2014;X. Li, and X. Wu, 2014) and West languages (Hinton et al., 2012;Swietojanski et al., 2013;Gupta & Boulianne, 2013;Schmidhuber 2015).
automatic STT on Cantonese is far behind.