A UNIFIED APPROACH TO GRAPHEME-TO-PHONEME CONVERSION FOR THE PLATTOS SLOVENIAN TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM

Authors: Rojc, Matej; Kacic, Zdravko

Source: Applied Artificial Intelligence, Volume 21, Number 6, June 2007 , pp. 563-603(41)

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Abstract:

This article presents a new unified approach to modeling grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for the PLATTOS Slovenian text-to-speech system. A cascaded structure consisting of several successive processing steps is proposed for the aim of grapheme-to-phoneme conversion. Processing foreign words and rules for the post-processing of phonetic transcriptions are also incorporated in the engine. The grapheme-to-phoneme conversion engine is flexible, efficient, and appropriate for multilingual text-to-speech systems. The grapheme-to-phoneme conversion process is described via finite-state machine formalism. The engine developed for Slovenian language can be integrated into various applications but can be even more efficiently integrated into architectures based on finite-state machine formalisms. Provided the necessary language resources are available, the presented approach can also be used for other languages.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08839510701409086

Affiliations: 1: University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

Publication date: 2007-06-01

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