[Corpora-List] English pronunciation dictionary

[Alexander S. Yeh]

Alexander S. Yeh wrote:
> Madiha Ijaz wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>  
>>
>> couple of days back i put a query regarding transcribing English text 
>> into Urdu and in response received some worthwhile suggestions.
>>
>> the one on which i am working right now makes use of CMU pronunciation 
>> dictionary and it is working fine but OOV still remain a problem.
> ...
> 
> As I remember it, another suggestion from the last query was the 
> Festival system.

Clarification: Festival is a text-to-speech system.
At some point, festival generates the pronunciation of a word using the 
CMU pronunciation system.
This generated pronunciation can be intercepted and returned.

> 
> This system has built-in rules to handle words not in the CMU (and 
> other) dictionaries.
> 
> -Alex


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