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Acquiring Pronunciation Data for a Placenames Lexicon in a Less-Resourced Language

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Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)

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We describe a procedure for generating pronunciations for a place-name dictionary for Welsh. For many such less-resourced languages, phoneticians with expertise in the language do not exist, so direct editing of pronunciations cannot occur. We describe a method where, if a native speaker and a text-...

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Published in: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)
Published: Marrakech, Morocco European Language Resources Association (ELRA) 2008
Online Access: http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/55_paper.pdf
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spelling 2014-03-20T10:39:16.8888984 v2 11776 2012-06-25 Acquiring Pronunciation Data for a Placenames Lexicon in a Less-Resourced Language 896a6aacfd217fb099481697a43bfe80 0000-0003-3928-4701 Rhys Jones Rhys Jones true false 2012-06-25 AMED We describe a procedure for generating pronunciations for a place-name dictionary for Welsh. For many such less-resourced languages, phoneticians with expertise in the language do not exist, so direct editing of pronunciations cannot occur. We describe a method where, if a native speaker and a text-to-speech synthesiser is available, pronunciations can be edited without detailed knowledge of the language's phonology. Our key development is the use of 're-spelling' to indicate, in a linguistically-naïve manner, the required pronunciation. These drive a set of specially-adapted letter-to-sound rules, thus generating the desired pronunciation. A speech synthesiser gives audio feedback to the native speaker and verifies that the pronunciation is correct, and a graphical user interface links the database backend, the speech synthesiser and the native speaker editor. This method has been used to generate a pronunciation database for Welsh placenames. Conference Paper/Proceeding/Abstract Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08) European Language Resources Association (ELRA) Marrakech, Morocco Lexicon, lexical database, Speech synthesis, Text-to-speech systems, Tools, systems, applications 31 5 2008 2008-05-31 http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/55_paper.pdf COLLEGE NANME Media COLLEGE CODE AMED Swansea University 2014-03-20T10:39:16.8888984 2012-06-25T13:12:27.0081945 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences School of Culture and Communication - Media, Communications, Journalism and PR Briony Williams 1 Rhys Jones 0000-0003-3928-4701 2
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description We describe a procedure for generating pronunciations for a place-name dictionary for Welsh. For many such less-resourced languages, phoneticians with expertise in the language do not exist, so direct editing of pronunciations cannot occur. We describe a method where, if a native speaker and a text-to-speech synthesiser is available, pronunciations can be edited without detailed knowledge of the language's phonology. Our key development is the use of 're-spelling' to indicate, in a linguistically-naïve manner, the required pronunciation. These drive a set of specially-adapted letter-to-sound rules, thus generating the desired pronunciation. A speech synthesiser gives audio feedback to the native speaker and verifies that the pronunciation is correct, and a graphical user interface links the database backend, the speech synthesiser and the native speaker editor. This method has been used to generate a pronunciation database for Welsh placenames.
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