We present in this paper the method of English-to-Korean(E-K) transliteration and back-transliteration. In Korean technical documents, many English words are transliterated into Korean words in various forms in diverse ways. As English words and Korean transliterations are usually technical terms and proper nouns, it is hard to nd a transliteration and its variations in a dictionary. Therefore ...

The majority of current speech enhancement systems are based on generalized signal-to-noise ratio dependent weighting rules and do not take into account the characteristics of the actual speech sound being processed. The following contribution is concerned with phoneme-specific speech enhancement methods that apply specially tailored signal processing methods. The first signal processing algori...

This paper presents the successful results of applying joint sequence modeling in Thai grapheme-to-phoneme conversion. The proposed method utilizes Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) in two-stage prediction. The first CRF is used for textual syllable segmentation and syllable type prediction. Graphemes and their corresponding phonemes are then aligned using well-designed many-to-many alignment ru...

A method is presented to correct phoneme strings produced by a vocabulary independent speech recognizer. The method first extracts the N best matching result strings using mixture density hidden Markov models (HMMs) trained by neural networks. Then the strings are corrected by the rules generated automatically by the Dynamically Expanding Context (DEC). Finally, the corrected string candidates ...

One general issue in the domain of visual word recognition is to delineate the nature of readers' knowledge of the print-sound mapping. A more specific question is to determine whether multiple grapheme-phoneme associations are available and activated during the phonological transcoding of a letter string. Evidence for the activation of irregular associations during print-to-sound transcoding, ...

Infants face the difficult problem of segmenting continuous speech into words without the benefit of a fully developed lexicon. Several sources of information in speech might help infants solve this problem, including prosody, semantic correlations and phonotactics. Research to date has focused on determining to which of these sources infants might be sensitive, but little work has been done to...

We report on an implemented grapheme-to-phoneme conversion architecture. Given a set of examples (spelling words with their associated phonetic representation) in a language, a grapheme-to-phoneme conversion system is automatically produced for that language which takes as its input the spelling of words, and produces as its output the phonetic transcription according to the rules implicit in t...

Text-to-speech (TTS) systems have increasingly found use in the modern world. One of the subproblems of TTS is determining the phonetic structure of words, i.e., their pronunciation, from their orthography, i.e., their spelling. This is known as the grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) problem. In all languages this is a nontrivial task, but particularly in English, a language with rich historiolinguistic...

This paper presents a fully automatic procedure for acquiring reusable phonotactic resources from syllable annotated data. The procedure makes use of a regular inference algorithm and the acquired resources are stored in a specialised XML representation. The technique is then extended to support acquisition from phoneme labelled data while providing a semi-automatic annotation system assisting ...

Partially phonemic languages use writing systems which are in between strictly phonemic and non-phonemic orthography. Therefore, phonetic errors are very frequent in such languages. This paper introduces an approach for development of spellcheckers for partially phonemic languages that use grapheme-to-phoneme mapping for isolated-word error correction. Since, a complete and accurate grapheme-to...