[Corpora-List] automated transcription of English words

[Walker, Daniel]

Hello,

I asked a similar question last year and got several responses. Here's a
summary I posted at the time.

http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/corpora/2003-2/0251.html

Daniel Walker

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-corpora at lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora at lists.uib.no]
On
> Behalf Of Marco Baroni
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 10:20 AM
> To: CORPORA at UIB.NO
> Cc: Samuel Porter Whitsitt
> Subject: [Corpora-List] automated transcription of English words
> 
> Hi everybody.
> 
> Does any of you know of a program that, taking English
orthographically
> transcribed words as input (or word+POS pairs), produces phonetically
> transcribed English as output? (American English or British English).
Or,
> at least, a program that guesses the number of syllables of an input
word?
> 
> Failing that, does anybody know of any English phonetic dictionary
besides
> the one that is part of CELEX?
> 
> And/or of lists of English spelling-to-pronunciation rules?
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marco
> 
> --
> Marco Baroni
> SSLMIT, University of Bologna
> http://sslmit.unibo.it/~baroni