Verifying pronunciation dictionaries using conflict analysis

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1898-1901

  Davel, Marelie H ^a   De Wet, Febe ^a  

^a CSIR MERAKA INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Default Refine; Error detection; G2p; Grapheme to phoneme; Pronunciation dictionaries; Quality verification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR DETECTION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CONFLICT ANALYSIS; CONFLICTING PATTERN; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; GRAPHEME TO PHONEMES; LANGUAGE INDEPENDENTS; MEASURE PRECISION; PRONUNCIATION DICTIONARIES; QUALITY VERIFICATION; CONFLICTS ANALYSIS; DEFAULT&REFINE; G2P; TWO WAYS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 79959835306     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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