15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15)Barcelona, Spain |
Generating correct pronunciation of proper names remains one of the
most difficult tasks in text-to-phoneme transcription. Although phonetic
rules can be efficient in processing proper names of one language,
foreign family names cannot be always correctly generated without additional
pronunciation rules.
The present study addresses the problem of
pronunciation variants for French and foreign family names in a French
grapheme to phoneme translator. 12 language and language group filters
process the names and when necessary additional, language dependent
pronunciation variants are added to the basic pronunciation yielded
by the French transcription rules. In speech recognition based interactive
vocal services, adding pronunciation variants to the basic phonetic
transcription reduces the substitution error rate on proper names and
makes applications using proper names more user friendly.
Bibliographic reference. Bartkova, Katarina (2003): "Generating proper name pronunciation variants for automatic speech recognition", In ICPhS-15, 1321-1324.