A Universal System for Automatic Text-to-Phonetics Conversion

Chen Gafni


Abstract
This paper describes an automatic text-to-phonetics conversion system. The system was constructed to primarily serve as a research tool. It is implemented in a general-purpose linguistic software, which allows it to be incorporated in a multifaceted linguistic research in essentially any language. The system currently relies on two mechanisms to generate phonetic transcriptions from texts: (i) importing ready-made phonetic word forms from external dictionaries, and (ii) automatic generation of phonetic word forms based on a set of deterministic linguistic rules. The current paper describes the proposed system and its potential application to linguistic research.
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R19-1042
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019)
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September
Year:
2019
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Varna, Bulgaria
Editors:
Ruslan Mitkov, Galia Angelova
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RANLP
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INCOMA Ltd.
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360–366
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https://aclanthology.org/R19-1042
DOI:
10.26615/978-954-452-056-4_042
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Chen Gafni. 2019. A Universal System for Automatic Text-to-Phonetics Conversion. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019), pages 360–366, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd..
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