• DocumentCode
    2803394
  • Title

    A rule-based grapheme-phone converter and stress determination for Brazilian Portuguese natural language processing

  • Author

    Silva, Denilson C. ; De Lima, Amaro A. ; Maia, R. ; Braga, Daniela ; de Moraes, J.F. ; de Moraes, J.A. ; Resende, Fernando G V

  • Author_Institution
    Fed. Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    3-6 Sept. 2006
  • Firstpage
    550
  • Lastpage
    554
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a grapheme-phone converter and stress determination algorithm based on rules. The proposed set of rules was implemented and tested on a randomly chosen extract of the CETEN-Folha text database. Computer experiments show it is achieve an accuracy of 97.44% and 98.58%, respectively, for the grapheme-phone converter and the stress determination algorithm.
  • Keywords
    knowledge based systems; natural language processing; speech synthesis; Brazilian Portuguese natural language processing; CETEN-Folha text database; TTS system; rule-based grapheme-phone converter algorithm; stress determination algorithm; text-to-speech converters; Brazil Council; Databases; Dictionaries; Helium; Natural language processing; Performance evaluation; Speech synthesis; Stress; Synthesizers; Testing; Grapheme; Natural Language Processing; Phone; Stress vowel; Synthesizer; Text-to-Speech;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Telecommunications Symposium, 2006 International
  • Conference_Location
    Fortaleza, Ceara
  • Print_ISBN
    978-85-89748-04-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-85-89748-04-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ITS.2006.4433335
  • Filename
    4433335