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An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis
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Paradigmatic cascades: a linguistically sound model of pronunciation by analogy
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Can syllabification improve pronunciation by analogy of English?
Natural Language Engineering
Joint-sequence models for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion
Speech Communication
Pronunciation prediction with Default&Refine
Computer Speech and Language
Multilingual pronunciation by analogy
Natural Language Engineering
Computer Speech and Language
Web derived pronunciations for spoken term detection
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NAACL-Short '07 Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Companion Volume, Short Papers
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SPIRE '09 Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval
SRWS '09 Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Student Research Workshop and Doctoral Consortium
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CIMMACS'09 Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS International Conference on Computational intelligence, man-machine systems and cybernetics
The effect of lexicon composition in pronunciation by analogy
TSD'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Text, speech and dialogue
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ACL '10 Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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CIT'10 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Communications and information technology
Automatic conversion between pronunciations of different English accents
Speech Communication
Automatic rule extraction for modeling pronunciation variation
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NAACL HLT '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
A probabilistic approach to pronunciation by analogy
Computer Speech and Language
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Pronunciation by analogy (PbA) is a data-driven method for relating letters to sound, with potential application to next-generation text-to-speech systems. This paper extends previous work on PbA in several directions. First, we have included "full" pattern matching between input letter string and dictionary entries, as well as including lexical stress in letter-to-phoneme conversion. Second, we have extended the method to phoneme-to-letter conversion. Third, and most important, we have experimented with multiple, different strategies for scoring the candidate pronunciations. Individual scores for each strategy are obtained on the basis of rank and either multiplied or summed to produce a final, overall score. Five strategies have been studied and results obtained from all 31 possible combinations. The two combination methods perform comparably, with the product rule only very marginally superior to the sum rule. Nonparametric statistical analysis reveals that performance improves as more strategies are included in the combination: this trend is very highly significant (p « 0.0005). Accordingly for letter-to-phoneme conversion, best results are obtained when all five strategies are combined: word accuracy is raised to 65.5% relative to 61.7% for our best previous result and 63.0% for the best-performing single strategy. These improvements are very highly significant (p ~ 0 and p = 0.00011 respectively). Similar results were found for phoneme-to-letter and letter-to-stress conversion, although the former was an easier problem for PbA than letter-to-phoneme conversion and the latter was harder. The main sources of error for the multistrategy approach are very similar to those for the best single strategy, and mostly involve vowel letters and phonemes.