Title :
Proper name pronunciations for speech technology applications
Author :
Spiegel, Murray F.
Author_Institution :
Speech Technol. Applications Res., Telcordia Technol., Morristown, NJ, USA
Abstract :
This paper describes a 15-year research effort to improve the automatic pronunciation of proper names and details the issues involved in applying those pronunciations to speech synthesis and speech recognition.
Keywords :
speech recognition; speech synthesis; automatic pronunciation; proper name pronunciations; speech recognition; speech synthesis; speech technology applications; Automatic speech recognition; Databases; Dictionaries; Law; Learning systems; Legal factors; Speech recognition; Speech synthesis; Terminology; Vocabulary;
Conference_Titel :
Speech Synthesis, 2002. Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7395-2
DOI :
10.1109/WSS.2002.1224402
