Enriching a pronunciation dictionary with phonological variation is a challenging task, not yet solved despite several decades of research, in particular for speech-to-text transc...
Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) are a state-of-the-art approach to natural language processing tasks like grapheme-tophoneme (g2p) conversion which is used to produce pronunciati...
Patrick Lehnen, Stefan Hahn, Andreas Guta, Hermann...
In this paper, the task of selecting the optimal subset of pronunciation variants from a set of automatically generated candidates is recast as a tree search problem. In this appr...
In this paper two aspects of generating and using phonetic Arabic dictionaries are described. First, the use of single pronunciation acoustic models in the context of Arabic large...
Frank Diehl, Mark J. F. Gales, Marcus Tomalin, Phi...
Abstract--Motivated by potential applications in second-language pedagogy, we present a novel approach to using articulatory information to improve automatic detection of typical p...