[Corpora-List] medication pronunciations

[Lucian Galescu]

For generic drug names, the USP Dictionary provides so called  
"pronunciation guides", which are essentially non-phonemic  
respellings. Medline Plus lists them, as well (not sure about the  
coverage for brand names, though). Of course, you'd have to translate  
them into Loquendo's phonemic alphabet; but then you'd probably need  
to do that no matter what other resources you may find (granted, if  
Loquendo's proprietary phonemic alphabet is reasonably close to others  
out there, presumably it would be easier if you could find phonemic  
pronunciations somewhere).

Lucian


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Lucian Galescu, PhD
Research Scientist, IHMC

On Mar 28, 2008, at 2:53 PM, Donna K. Byron wrote:

> We are working on a project that will involve sending prescription  
> medication names to a Text-to-speech engine (Loquendo). Med names  
> are notoriously OOV and the preferred pronunciations are difficult  
> to predict from the spellings.  We have found some pronunciations in  
> medical dictionaries, but there are around 1000 more that we haven't  
> found a source for (mostly trade names). There are so many projects  
> out there dealing with e-health or medical interaction of various  
> sorts, it occurs to me that this problem might have been tackled  
> already.  Does anyone know of a phonemic pronunciation dictionary of  
> medication names that's relatively comprehensive?  I realize that  
> the set of medication names grows every day, but any list we could  
> find would be helpful.  We would prefer something free, but a low  
> cost option would also be alright. Thanks in advance for any pointers.
>
> Best,
>
> Donna Byron
>
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