[Corpora-List] Fwd: Re: Phoneme frequency information
Angus B. Grieve-Smith
grvsmth at panix.com
Tue Dec 15 14:26:28 UTC 2009
> Another solution might be to apply a grapheme-to-phoneme converter (as used in
> text-to-speech synthesis systems) to your own corpus - written sources or
> transcribed speech - and compute the phoneme frequencies from this converted
> corpus.
I would like to point out that this will not give you actual phoneme
frequency, only an estimate of what the frequencies would be if every
word were pronounced according to the standards encoded in the
grapheme-to-phoneme converter.
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-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
grvsmth at panix.com
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