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

[Alexander Yeh]

Eric Atwell wrote:
> What language is this for??? You didn't notice the Subject header:
>
> Algorithm for orthography to IPA conversion in German

Sorry, my mail reader truncated the header and dropped the end part with 
"in German".

-Alex

>
> 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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