Pronunciation of proper names with a joint n-gram model for bi-directional grapheme-to-phoneme conversion

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 109-112

  Galescu, Lucian ^a   Allen, James F ^a  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

BI-DIRECTIONAL; DATA DRIVEN; GRAPHEME-TO-PHONEME CONVERSION; LEXICAL RECOGNITION; N-GRAM MODELING; ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE; SPECIFIC TASKS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85009238150     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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