[Corpora-List] Algorithm for orthography to IPA conversion in German

[Eric Atwell]

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Algorithm for orthography to IPA conversion in German

Eric Atwell, Leeds University



On Tue, 10 May 2011, Alexander Yeh wrote:

> Thomas Schmidt wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am looking for an algorithm / a tool / a set of rules which can help
>> me to automatically derive an IPA transcription for an orthographic
>> word (i.e. no lexicon lookup). Can anybody help (I'll post a summary)?
>
> What language is this for?
> Some languages are going to be pretty hard, such as Chinese (also, the
> same character can have very different pronunciations depending on the
> dialect used) or English.
> As I remember it, an example for English is "read",
> which can either be pronounced like "red" (like when "read" is a past
> tense verb)
> or like "reed" (like when "read" is a present tense verb).
>
> -Alex
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>
>
>
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