[Corpora-List] transcribe English text

[Madiha Ijaz]

Hi Briony,

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.
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.
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.
i hope this clarifies your question.

Madiha


On 3/6/08, Briony Williams <b.williams at bangor.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Alexander S. Yeh wrote:
> > Madiha Ijaz wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> Are you looking for a US or a UK pronunciation of English?
>
> For a US accent, the CMU dictionary (as Alexander wrote) is a good tool.
>
> > 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.
>
> This is quite easy to do within Festival. Or just grep the dictionary,
> perhaps?
>
> On the other hand, if a UK English pronunciation is preferred, you could
> use
> the OALD which is part of the Festival distribution (bear in mind the
> licence
> restricts its use to non-commercial purposes only). Or alternatively use
> the
> pronunciation lookup feature within SFS (Speech Filing System), available
> at
> http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/sfs/
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Best regards
>
> Briony Williams
>
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