PL-ILT: A web tool for creation of pronunciation lexicon in Indian languages

Author

Mukherjee, Sayan ; Das Mandal, Shyamal Kumar

Author_Institution

Center for Educ. Technol., Indian Inst. of Technol., Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India

fYear

2013

fDate

25-27 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper present the efforts involved in designing a mass development tool to create comprehensive machine readable pronunciation lexicon for Indian languages. The lexicon file contains the orthography, corresponding pronunciations, parts-of-speech, morphosyntactic description, idiolectic variation of word pronunciation and meaning of lexical entries in a format based on requirements defined by the W3C Voice Browser Activity Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) 1.0. The current version of the Pronunciation Lexicon for Indian Languages Toolkit (PL-ILT) PLS contains approximately 2 million lexical entries for Bengali. Although in this paper we only describe language specific issues related to Bengali, PL-ILT has the ability to adapt different languages.

Keywords

Internet; natural languages; online front-ends; Bengali; PL-ILT; W3C voice browser activity pronunciation lexicon specification 1.0; Web tool; World-Wide Web Consortium; lexicon file; machine readable pronunciation lexicon; mass development tool; morphosyntactic description; orthography; parts-of-speech; pronunciation lexicon for Indian languages toolkit; word pronunciation; Dictionaries; Finite element analysis; Servers; Speech; Speech synthesis; Standards; XML; Bengali PLS; Indian Languages; PL-ILT; Pronunciation Lexicon Specification;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Oriental COCOSDA held jointly with 2013 Conference on Asian Spoken Language Research and Evaluation (O-COCOSDA/CASLRE), 2013 International Conference

Conference_Location

Gurgaon

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSDA.2013.6709858

Filename

6709858