<div>Hi Briony,</div>
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<div>well i am not looking for any particular English accent as my purpose is to get phonetic transcription of English text and then convert that phonetic transcription to Urdu text. </div>
<div>Basically i want to transliterate English text (misspelled words too) into Urdu and already existing algorithms do not give good results while converting English text to Urdu text directly. if i can get transcribed English text then at least letter-to-sound rules and sound change rules of English are taken care of and when the phonetic transcription is afterwards converted to Urdu text; the accuracy will be much higher.</div>
<div>this is to be used in an Urdu text-to-speech system as while processing Urdu text one comes across a lot of English text which needs to be transliterated into Urdu in order to be processed by the TTS.</div>
<div>i hope this clarifies your question.</div>
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<div>Madiha </div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/6/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Briony Williams</b> <<a href="mailto:b.williams@bangor.ac.uk">b.williams@bangor.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Alexander S. Yeh wrote:<br>> Madiha Ijaz wrote:<br>>> i wanted to know if there is any open source tool available that can<br>
>> transcribe English text in either IPA or SAMPA.<br>><br>> Some indirect paths:<br>><br>> 1. The CMU pronouncing dictionary maps many English words to one or more<br>> pronunciations. The pronunciations are coded with combinations of ASCII<br>
> characters. Each combination maps to one (sometimes more) IPA symbols.<br><br>Are you looking for a US or a UK pronunciation of English?<br><br>For a US accent, the CMU dictionary (as Alexander wrote) is a good tool.<br>
<br>> 2. The Festival text-to-speech system uses the CMU pronouncing<br>> dictionary and other resources to make a best guess at how a word is<br>> pronounced. Initially, the pronunciation is encoded in the same way as<br>
> in the CMU pronouncing dictionary.<br>> Some people have gotten Festival to output these pronunciation codes.<br><br>This is quite easy to do within Festival. Or just grep the dictionary, perhaps?<br><br>On the other hand, if a UK English pronunciation is preferred, you could use<br>
the OALD which is part of the Festival distribution (bear in mind the licence<br>restricts its use to non-commercial purposes only). Or alternatively use the<br>pronunciation lookup feature within SFS (Speech Filing System), available at<br>
<a href="http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/sfs/">http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/sfs/</a><br><br>I hope this helps.<br><br>Best regards<br><br>Briony Williams<br><br>--<br>Briony Williams<br><br>Arweinydd Tîm Technoleg Lleferydd / Speech Technology Team Leader<br>
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