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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Greetings.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Here’s one useful sounding publication that may lead to additional useful resources:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/qgawd1u76aj4e01q/">http://www.springerlink.com/content/qgawd1u76aj4e01q/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Jan Zelinka and Ludìk Müller. “Automatic General Letter-to-Sound Rules Generation for German Text-to-Speech System.” Text, Speech and Dialogue. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2004, Volume 3206/2004, 537-543, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30120-2_68.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>--Eric<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> corpora-bounces@uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mortem Dei<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 10, 2011 2:16 PM<br><b>To:</b> Alexander Yeh<br><b>Cc:</b> corpora@uib.no; Eric Atwell; Thomas Schmidt<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Corpora-List] Algorithm for orthography to IPA conversion in German<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I don't know of any algorithm, but you should be able to write one without much trouble, german spelling is quite exact. There are many books with the rules for making phonetic transcripts in German, you could take a look at: <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Pompino-Marschall, Bernd. 1995. Einführung in die Phonetik. Berlin etc.: de Gruyter.<br><br>Matías</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>2011/5/10 Alexander Yeh <<a href="mailto:asy@mitre.org">asy@mitre.org</a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Eric Atwell wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What language is this for??? You didn't notice the Subject header:<br><br>Algorithm for orthography to IPA conversion in German<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>Sorry, my mail reader truncated the header and dropped the end part with "in German".<br><br>-Alex<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>Eric Atwell, Leeds University<br><br><br><br>On Tue, 10 May 2011, Alexander Yeh wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thomas Schmidt wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dear all,<br><br>I am looking for an algorithm / a tool / a set of rules which can help<br>me to automatically derive an IPA transcription for an orthographic<br>word (i.e. no lexicon lookup). Can anybody help (I'll post a summary)?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>What language is this for?<br>Some languages are going to be pretty hard, such as Chinese (also, the<br>same character can have very different pronunciations depending on the<br>dialect used) or English.<br>As I remember it, an example for English is "read",<br>which can either be pronounced like "red" (like when "read" is a past<br>tense verb)<br>or like "reed" (like when "read" is a present tense verb).<br><br>-Alex<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>Thanks,<br><br>Thomas<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: <a href="http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora" target="_blank">http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora</a><br>Corpora mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Corpora@uib.no" target="_blank">Corpora@uib.no</a><br><a href="http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora" target="_blank">http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: <a href="http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora" target="_blank">http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora</a><br>Corpora mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Corpora@uib.no" target="_blank">Corpora@uib.no</a><br><a href="http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora" target="_blank">http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>