Predicting name pronunciation for a reverse directory service

An Algorithm for High Accuracy Name Pronunciation by Parametric Speech Synthesizer

Automatic and accurate pronunciation of personal names by parametric speech synthesizer has become a crucial limitation for applications within the telecommunications industry, since the technology is needed to provide new automated services such as reverse directory assistance (number to name). Within text-to-speech technology, however, it was not possible to offer such functionality. This was...

Generation and Pruning of Pronunciation Variants to Improve ASR Accuracy

Speech recognition, especially name recognition, is widely used in phone services such as company directory dialers, stock quote providers or location finders. It is usually challenging due to pronunciation variations. This paper proposes an efficient and robust data-driven technique which automatically learns acceptable word pronunciations and updates the pronunciation dictionary to build a be...

Highly Available Directory Services in DCE

The DCE standard includes specifications for the Directory Service, a component that performs typical naming services in distributed computing environments. We list some deficiencies in these specifications that affect the naming service availability and correctness, and suggest possible solutions. We then describe an enhancement of an implementation of the Directory Service that adds support f...

Designing a universal name service

A MIME Content-Type for Directory Information

This document defines a MIME Content-Type for holding directory information. The definition is independent of any particular directory service or protocol. The text/directory Content-Type is defined for holding a variety of directory information, for example, name, or email address, or logo. The text/directory Content-Type can also be used as the root body part in a multipart/related ContentTyp...