Bi-directional Conversion Between Graphemes and Phonemes Using a Joint N-gram Model (2001)
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@MISC{Galescu01bi-directionalconversion,
author = {Lucian Galescu and James F. Allen},
title = {Bi-directional Conversion Between Graphemes and Phonemes Using a Joint N-gram Model},
year = {2001}
}
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Abstract
We present in this paper a statistical model for languageindependent bi-directional conversion between spelling and pronunciation, based on joint grapheme/phoneme units 1 extracted from automatically aligned data. The model is evaluated on spelling-to-pronunciation and pronunciation-tospelling conversion on the NetTalk database and the CMU dictionary. We also study the effect of including lexical stress in the pronunciation. Although a direct comparison is difficult to make, our model's performance appears to be as good or better than that of other data-driven approaches that have been applied to the same tasks. 1.
