Abstract:This paper presents a knowledge-based approach for the grapheme to-phoneme conversion (G2P) of isolated words of the Italian language. With more than 7,000 languages in the world, the biggest challenge today is to rapidly port speech processing systems to new languages with low human effort and at reasonable cost. This includes the creation of qualified pronunciation dictionaries. The dictionaries provide the mapping from the orthographic form of a word to its pronunciation, which is useful in both speech synt… Show more
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