Rule-based Korean grapheme to phoneme conversion using sound patterns

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Abstract

Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion plays an important role in text-to-speech applications and other fields of computational linguistics. Although Korean uses a phonemic writing system, it must have a grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for speech synthesis because Korean writing system does not always reflect its actual pronunciations. This paper describes a grapheme-to-phoneme conversion method based on sound patterns to convert Korean text strings into phonemic representations. In the experiment with Korean news broadcasting evaluation set of 20 sentences, the accuracy of our system achieve as high as 98.70% on conversion. The performance of our rule-based system shows that the rule-based sound patterns are effective on Korean grapheme-to-phoneme conversion.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPACLIC 23 - Proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
Pages843-850
Number of pages8
StatePublished - 2009
Event23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 23 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 3 Dec 20095 Dec 2009

Publication series

NamePACLIC 23 - Proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
Volume2

Conference

Conference23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 23
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period3/12/095/12/09

Keywords

  • Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion
  • Korean
  • Sound pattern

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