A new rule-based method of automatic phonetic notation on polyphones

Author

Zheng Min ; Lianhong, Cai

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

31 Aug.-4 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

671

Abstract

In this paper, a new rule-based method of automatic phonetic notation on the 220 polyphones whose appearing frequency exceeds 99% is proposed. Firstly, all the polyphones in a sentence are classified beforehand. Secondly, rules are extracted based on eight features. Lastly, automatic phonetic notation is applied according to the rules. The paper puts forward a new concept of prosodic functional part of speech in order to improve the numerous and complicated grammatical information. The examples and results of this method are shown at the end of this paper. Compared with other approaches dealt with polyphones, the results show that this new method improves the accuracy of phonetic notation on polyphones.

Keywords

grammars; knowledge based systems; speech processing; automatic phonetic notation; grammatical information; grapheme phoneme conversion; polyphone; prosodic functional part; rule-based method; Computer aided instruction; Data mining; Frequency; Paper technology; Speech synthesis; Statistical distributions; Statistics; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing, 2004. Proceedings. ICSP '04. 2004 7th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8406-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOSP.2004.1452752

Filename

1452752