Re: Ascii phonetic English dictionary


Allan Adler wrote:
> I've been looking at source code for what is called speech-to-phoneme
> software freely available on the web.

Please give me some links to the source.

> Many of them start with lists of
> words and their pronunciations, and then have software that uses
these
> lists to make predictions as to how to pronounce unknown words.
Therefore,
> in order to write a text-to-ascii-IPA program along these lines, one
needs
> a list of English words and their renditions in ascii-IPA. Are there
any
> such lists available online? Here is a sample of what I found in one
> online dictionary, but this doesn't look like ascii-IPA to me (the
one
> for zithers doesn't like right to me, either):

[zID@z] in ASCII IPA.

> zithers z * i dh a z
> zloty z l * o t i
> zlotys z l * o t i z
> zodiac z * oa d i aa k
> zodiacs z * oa d i aa k s
> zombie z * o m b i
> zombies z * o m b i z
> zonal z * oa n l
>
> The list this is taken from has about 70,000 words; it's part of the
PhD
> thesis of someone at CMU. So, I gather that one needs lists of such
length.
> I've also found articles online on how to write programs like this,
and others
> on how to take into account more linguistic information. I don't know
anything,
> so I don't take a position on whether this kind of "applied
linguistics" does
> violence to the subject of linguistics itself. I just want to know
roughly
> how this kind of thing is done, whatever its merits.
> --
> Ignorantly,
> Allan Adler <ara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> * Disclaimer: I am a guest and *not* a member of the MIT CSAIL. My
actions and
> * comments do not reflect in any way on MIT. Also, I am nowhere near
Boston.

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