[Corpora-List] [Fwd: Re: transcribe English text]

[Alexander S. Yeh]

Not sure if this got sent out.
My apologies for any duplicate postings.

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Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] transcribe English text
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:35:31 -0500
From: Alexander S. Yeh <asy at mitre.org>
To: Madiha Ijaz <madiha.ijaz at nu.edu.pk>
CC: corpora at uib.no
References: <352cf7300803040314m4e6df93au3ac20465ae59d438 at mail.gmail.com>

Madiha Ijaz wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> i wanted to know if there is any open source tool available that can 
> transcribe English text in either IPA or SAMPA.

Some indirect paths:

1. The CMU pronouncing dictionary maps many English words to one or more
pronunciations. The pronunciations are coded with combinations of ASCII
characters. Each combination maps to one (sometimes more) IPA symbols.

2. The Festival text-to-speech system uses the CMU pronouncing
dictionary and other resources to make a best guess at how a word is
pronounced. Initially, the pronunciation is encoded in the same way as
in the CMU pronouncing dictionary.
Some people have gotten Festival to output these pronunciation codes.

Hope this helps
-Alex

>  
> regards
> Madiha
> 
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