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Automatic Generation of Pronunciation Lexicons for Spanish

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Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing 2002)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 2276))

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In this paper a method for the automatic generation of pronunciation lexicons including multiple word pronunciation is presented. This method is based on the application of a set of rules for grapheme-tophone conversion for Mexican Spanish. The generation of multiple word pronunciations is based on the introduction of pronunciation variants by applying allophonic rules. The performance of a speech recognition system using a pronunciation lexicon with and without multiple word pronunciations is also presented.

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  1. Instituto de Investigación en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, D.F.

    Esmeralda Uraga & Luis Pineda

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  1. CIC Centro de Investigacion en Computacion, IPN Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Col Zacateno, CP 07738, Mexico DF, Mexico

    Alexander Gelbukh

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Uraga, E., Pineda, L. (2002). Automatic Generation of Pronunciation Lexicons for Spanish. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2276. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45715-1_34

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